Chinese voice input

I don't know what's cooler--that someone out there (probably a team of someones) has managed to take the tonal language of Mandarin Chinese and digitize it into software that recognizes spoken words, that the software comes built into the new Android Jelly Bean update, or that I can speak putonghua putongish enough to have it understood by my phone. After many small leaps and endless plateaux with this godforsaken language, this is a moment that is surprising me in it's ability to make me feel as if I've arrived.