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.
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.
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 choice. If you’ve installed other text-to-speech software, that may appear here instead.
Install voice data. This item is likely be grayed out, because the Pico TTS system is already in place. However, after you install another text-to-speech system, you may have to come back to this setting and tap it to complete the installation of the voice data required for that system.
Speech rate. Tap to select how fast the text should be read to you. There are five choices, ranging from “Very slow” to “Very fast”.
Language. Tap and then choose the language of text that you want read to you. In most cases, that’ll be American English. But if someone sends you email in Italian, for example, and you want it read to you, select Italian. That way, the text reader will know that the language it’s looking at, and attempt to pronounce the words accordingly. For example, in Italian the letter combination “ci” is pronounced the same way as “ch” in English.
PICO TTS. Lets you choose which language you want the Droid X’s Pico TTS to use. However, since the Language setting controls this, there’s no need to tap here.
eSpeak TTS. If you want to use the eSpeak TTS system instead of Pico TTS, tap here to download and install it. Once it’s installed, you can set its options here.