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Xiaomi: Change Text-to-Speech Voice, Speed and Language

When TalkBack or Select to Speak reads content in the wrong language or sounds too fast, the text-to-speech engine on your Xiaomi phone is set to the wrong voice or rate. Pitch, speed and language all come from one shared accessibility setting, so a single wrong value affects every screen-reading feature at once. Fixing it stops garbled or mismatched speech without disabling accessibility features entirely.

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Set Up Text-to-Speech Output auf Xiaomi

Text-to-speech output controls every spoken response on your Xiaomi phone, including TalkBack, Select to Speak and any app that reads text aloud. If the voice sounds too fast, too slow, robotic or speaks the wrong language, this single system engine is responsible, not the individual app.

Open SettingsAdditional settingsAccessibilityVisionText-to-speech output. From here you can switch the preferred engine, pick a different language, and swipe the sliders to adjust Speech rate and Pitch.

A quick preview plays automatically after each change, so you can hear the result before leaving the menu. If speech still sounds wrong after adjusting rate and pitch, the installed language pack for the TTS engine may be incomplete; reinstalling or updating that language data usually resolves it.

Changing these values only affects synthesized speech output. It has no effect on microphone-based features like voice typing or Google Assistant listening, since those use separate recognition settings.

Frequently asked questions

Under Text-to-speech output, tap the settings icon next to the preferred engine and check if a higher-quality voice pack is available for download. Not all languages ship with a natural-sounding voice by default.