Voice Input & Output
A variety of apps, such as the Screen Reader and GPS navigation apps can read text to you from your Droid X. The settings in this section control how it works.
Voice Recognizer Settings
Language. Choose the language you’ll be speaking into the Droid X.
SafeSearch. Controls the kind of search results you get when you search Google using voice commands, by filtering explicit images and explicit text. The Moderate setting filters explicit images, and the Strict setting filters both explicit images and explicit text. Off turns off the filter.
Block offensive words. Blocks the results of a voice search using offensive words. Uncheck it if you don’t want those results blocked.
Show hints. When this option is turned on, suggestions for words you might be searching for—called hints—appear when you search Google using voice commands.
Text to Speech Settings
Listen to an example. Tap to hear a voice read text to you. Yes, it’s robotic-sounding—that’s the nature of text-to-speech.
Always use my settings. Individual apps have a variety of settings for controlling how text-to-speech works. If you want to override those settings with settings of your own, tap this option. You can then set the two options just below it on the list, under Default settings—“Speech rate” and Language.
Default Engine. You shouldn’t have to worry about this setting—it just tells you what text-to-speech software the Droid X users, which out of the box is Pico TTS (TTS stands for text to speech) and the only ...
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