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Speech
Set voice search and text-to-speech options.
Voice Search
1. From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Settings.
Under Personal, touch Language and input.
2. Touch Voice search to configure:
•Language: Choose a language for your voice input.
•“Ok Google” hotword detection: Say “Ok Google” to
launch a voice search.
•Speech output: Always provides audible readout of
text, or only when using Hands-free functions.
•Block offensive words: Block recognized offensive
words from the results of your voice-input Google
searches.
•Offline speech recognition: Enable voice input while
offline. Touch the All tab to download speech
recognition for other languages.
•Bluetooth headset: Record audio through a Bluetooth
headset, if available.
Text-To-Speech Options
1. From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Settings.
Under Personal, touch Language and input.
2. Touch Text-to-speech options and select the
preferred TTS engine.
3. Touch next to the preferred TTS engine and
configure.
4. Under General, configure the following:
•Speech rate: Set the speed at which the text is
spoken.
•Listen to an example: Play a sample of speech
synthesis (available if voice data is installed).
•Default language status: Display the default
language inuse.