[gregpilling]

I have been trying to use Android voice for five years and have been shocked at how many words it completely mangles for me. Just completely wrong. This has surprised me since I am Canadian, live in the USA and have a generic American TV accent.

The failure rate is high enough that I rarely use the voice feature, despite the fact I have problems with my hands that make typos a constant irritation. I know I am just an anecdote - the strange thing is that my voice and lack of accent should be the easiest thing for Android to navigate.

[wutbrodo]

Interesting. One of the things that immediately got me hooked was how well it recognized my voice; That excitement has long since faded and now excellent speech recognition is something I just take for granted that it does well.

Maybe try going into Settings > Voice on the Google search app and downloading the voice pack for the version of English you think matches best? That's still pretty weird though.