

Speaking Email lists any languages you have voices selected for.In Speaking Email go to Preferences > Speech Speed, Voices & Language.Download the voices in any languages you need.Note that Speaking Email won't use Samsung or other vendor voices - so you need to enable the Google voices as your default TTS engine.Ensure you have "Google Text to Speech" selected and the correct language. Look under Accessibility > Text-to-speech output.If something is disabled it will detect and prompt you guide you how to turn it on. The best way to check is to open Google Voice Assistant. You may have some system setting inadvertently disabled. For example en-NZ is not available offline so you must use en-US or en-GB as your default language (but you can keep en-NZ as a secondary language) A common problem is that the default language is not available as an offline voice. Note that this must be one of the 'Offline Languages' you downloaded and installed first. Go back to 'Language & Input', and select the same languages again.

Go back to 'Google Voice Typing', and select the languages you want to use under 'Languages'. Note: if your preferred language does not have an offline voice available under Google Voice Typing, you must choose a language that does and make it your default language.If you see 'Offline Speech Recognition', tap that, and install / download all languages that you would like to use.If you see "Faster Voice Typing", switch that on. Find "Google Voice Typing", make sure it's enabled.When you have done this, you need to make sure the same language (eg en-US, en-GB, fr-FR, pt-BR) is used in various settings so that everything works.Ĭheck the following in your system settings: It works offline so you need to download the offline voice. Speaking Email uses "Google Voice Typing" for dictation and commands. Here are some tips for setting up Android for speech and voice recognition. A: You may need to tweak your system settings for an optimal experience.
