Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual

Voice Input and Output

A VARIETY OF APPS, such as the Screen Reader and GPS navigation apps, can read text to you from your Galaxy S II. The settings in this section control how it works.

• Voice recognition. This selects the voice recognition engine, either Google’s or an engine Samsung uses powered by a company called Vlingo.

• Voice recognition settings. Tap this, and you get to a screen with these settings:

  

  • Language. Tap to choose your language.

  • 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.

  • Personalized recognition. Tap here, and Google attempts to improve voice recognition by using past words and phrases you’ve spoken into the Galaxy S II and comparing them to what you’re currently saying. To do that, it needs to tie recordings of those words and phrases to your account—normally they’re kept anonymous. But if you worry about the privacy implications of this, don’t turn this option on.

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