How To Use Speech Settings On Samsung Galaxy S4
Learn how to use the speech settings on your Samsung Galaxy S4. This menu allows you to set the speech settings for Voice input.
- From the Home screen, tap Apps > Settings > My device > Language and input.
- Tap Voice search to configure the following:
- Language: Choose a language for your voice input.
- Speech output: Sets whether you will use speech output always or only when using hands-free.
- Block offensive words: Enable or disable blocking of recognized offensive words from the results of your voice-input Google searches.
- Hotword detection: Enable to being able to launch voice search by saying the word Google.
- Download offline speech recognition: Enables voice input while offline.
- Personalized recognition: enables the improvement of speech recognition accuracy.
- Google Account dashboard: allows you to manage your collected data.
- Bluetooth headset: allows you to record audio through a Bluetooth headset if available.
- Tap Text-to-speech options and select Google Text-to-speech Engine or Samsung text-to-speech engine.
- Tap Settings icon next to the preferred TTS engine configure the following settings:
- Language: allows you to set the language for spoken text.
- Settings for Google Text-to-speech Engine: allows you to view Open Source Licenses.
- Settings for Samsung text-to-speech engine allows you to view Open Source Licenses.
- Install voice data: allows you to install voice data for speech synthesis.
- Scroll down to the General section to access the following options:
- 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).