Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.
Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.
It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine ā a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health ā and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] ā for it to be okay for these words to be censored.
And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.
I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry
When I worked as a captioner for a telephone for the Hard of Hearing and Deaf, we were literally instructed to never censor the swearing no matter our feelings about it because it broke FCC guidelines (or whatever law it is that governs US communications). So it absolutely incenses me that this is happening to OP, and likely countless others.
It pisses me off when captions censor the swear word but the audio doesnāt censor the word. You are not being accessible. Youre not being cute. Youāre just being a pussy ass bitch who cares more about fragile āsensibilitiesā instead of giving people accurate access to something an able bodied person would be able to access innately.
HoH and Deaf people deserve to swear and know when crude language is being used. People who use Speech-to-Text deserve to have their words unedited and uncensored.
Also the double standard about what is considered vulgar in OPās original complaint is so insidious and horrific. Iām also furious about that. If penis is okay, so should vagina without any thoughts of censoring it. Also speech to text shouldnāt be censoring any of it to begin with, because it is literally a tool to transcribe spoken word to text and I am furious it is being used to censor shit out.
What the fuck.
