You can really see the "search term bias" in that snippet.

I've found the Android speech recognition works great for voice search and sucks for everything else. I've written a HN post or two with it; it either needed much hand editing or an outright translation to be intelligible.

Very interesting observation!

It didn't immediately seem obvious to me why there were references to "welcome center", "dental", etc.

I've got one years worth of transcribed Google Voice VMs that back you up on this. The way Google does "best fit" matching of words sometimes results in messages that are just hilariously mistranscribed. You can usually get the gist of what the person actually said, which makes the transcription useful, but once in a while the message just diverts off into total nonsense.

Here's a recent one:

Hey George, it's me does not seem to be working and it's going, but it doesn't seem to be having issue tonight and I was just wondering if that was. If there's anything that we did like If we're not getting any call. Walker, I don't if it's just been forever and it's not Brian anything okay if you get this call. Bye.

I tried it out it doesn't work what is well is the article suggest

baby it is just my voice how to get to least a couple of words wrong almost every statement it welcome thoughts for example are consistently miss heard

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Worked pretty well for me. Not perfect but close.