You can utilize Google’s Text-to-Speech service by adjusting settings from your phone’s accessibility screen. Choose what text will be read, how your phone will provide feedback, and view a short tutorial on how text-to-speech works to enhance your device. Once enabled, hover over anything you want to learn more details about and your phone will read text aloud. To project text-to-speech through a headset, simply connect your wired or Bluetooth headset to your phone and activate it before you select the text you want read aloud.
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Press the Menu key and tap on “Settings” or “System Settings.”
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Scroll through your settings until you locate “Accessibility” and tap on that.
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Tap on “TalkBack” or “Text-to-Speech” and slide the bar at the top right-hand side to “On.”
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Configure your text to speech options by tapping “Settings” at the bottom of the screen. You can ask your phone to speak the caller ID of anyone that calls you, in addition to whether or not your device will speak when the screen is off.
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Connect your headset to your device. If it is a Bluetooth set, you will need to enable Bluetooth functionality on your Android. Tap the menu button followed by “System Settings” and then tap on the “Bluetooth” slider to activate it. Wired headsets will enable the moment they are plugged into the headphone jack of your device.
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Touch your screen to use the text-to-speech service, which reads descriptions of what you are hovering over. You can scroll up or down with two fingers on the screen, then use one finger to select an individual app or block of text by swiping it along the screen. Your Android will automatically read anything you touch, as well as provide vocal feedback for actions like turning off your screen.
