If you aren't American, you may improve recognition performance by making a point of saying "a" to rhyme with "hay" and "the" to rhyme with "bee". Otherwise, coughs and ums and scratching yourself tends to be picked up as "a a the a". Added to your text randomly.

Also, I told my computer that I had invented a new word pronounced "perry odd" and spelled "period". The pronunciation "pee ree odd" makes a "." andit didn't seem to be possible to change that.

When peach wreck ignition catches on big, I expect that spoken language will change in many details.

I also concentrated on accurate recognition of cusswords, so that when the thing acts up and you say something to release tension, it doesn't add to it instead. Although you also probably don't want to text those words to a pious aunt. So maybe hook them up to various delete-text commands, if you can. "Chuck" for a single word undo, "chuck that" for sentence, and so on.

Most of this software takes time to learn your speech and contacts/names you use. So how long did you give the application to learn you? Really three or four days maybe to get up to speed. Kind of like Autoweek talking about mileage on a car with less than 10,000 on it.

For the latest version of google voice to work well you need to configure two things:

1) Set the recognition language to US English. Yes, somewhat laughable but true.

2) Ensure that your contacts are all google contacts. The voice recognition system is cloud based and needs access to your contact names - having them as context makes a huge improvement to recognition rates.

2V.

As time goes on, people will probably personalize their computers more and more. So the question is, how many John Connors, Jeeves, and HALs will there be in the near future? Not to mention the Spocks and that head and torso dude I can't remember the name of.

"directions to Sesame Street"

#Did you mean...?
#1 - Suzanne Street
#2 - Susan's Teats
#3 - Southern Trite
#4 - Sesame Street
#5 - Szechuan Treats

"four"

#Did you mean...?
#1 - 4
#2 - 5

"one"
#Oh just use your bloody finger!

I'd expect that - select "1", "2" etc. Maybe Microsoft or someone patented it...