How to Thwart the Nexus One's Naughty Word Filter
How to Thwart the Nexus One's Naughty Word Filter
Posted 01/26/2010 at 6:31am
| by Paul Lilly
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A few of you were pretty pissed off to learn that your foul vocabulary isn't welcome on the Nexus One, and that the smartphone's built-in voice recognition automatically filters curse words. We imagine Google will eventually release an update giving you the option to disable the filter, but until then, you're #### out of luck. Kind of.
While there's currently no way to turn the filter off, there is a workaround and it comes courtesy of Neil Gaiman, who posted his method on Twitter.
"For the curious: swear into a Google & it transcribes it as ####. But if you swear and then say "dot come" it will write what you said," Neil tweeted.
Elegant? #### no, but according to Gizmodo, it works, so it will have to do until the next update.
Image Credit: Gizmodo
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keithfreitag
January 26, 2010 at 11:08am
You guys seriously can't use a screen cap from a Nexus One? You had to resort to using an iPhone.
Steve Jobs is the Devil and likes to swear at little girls.
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cynical
January 26, 2010 at 7:21am
If anything, adding .com to the end of your swear words makes it more hilarious.
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