Kowjai Thai: Google voice search goes tonally Thai

Don’t have a free hand or hate typing, but have trouble nailing those English vowels and consonants to Google’s satisfaction?

As of yesterday, the popular voice search feature now understands Thai speech.

Now if only we could get a Thaiglish hybrid so English speakers’ “soi” doesn’t become “this way.”

To use voice search in Thai, just load up the voice search app and choose settings. Change it to Thai.

Our first test of course was it’s proficiency with understanding slang and vulgar verbage. Our exhaustive testing – which consisted of shouting offensive words at a phone – found the “block offensive words” option isn’t savvy to our coarse language.




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