Configure Hearing Accessibility Settings - Samsung Galaxy S 5 User Manual

Speak passwords: When Explore by touch is turned on, you can enable Speak passwords
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to have your phone read out characters entered in password fields.
Note: Use caution with this feature, because others near you will be able to hear your passwords.
Font size: Choose the size of text for your phone's screens.
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Magnification gestures: Use special magnification gestures, including:
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• Triple-tap on most screens to zoom in or out.
• While zoomed in, you can drag two or more fingers across the screen to pan (move
around the screen).
• While zoomed in, you can use pinch with two fingers to adjust the zoom level. Move your
fingers closer together to zoom in, or apart to zoom out.
• Triple-tap and hold to temporarily magnify what's under your finger. You can then drag
your finger across the screen to explore the screen. Lift your finger to return to the
regular-size screen.
Negative colors: Screen colors are reversed.
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Color adjustment: Adjust the color of the screen if you have difficulty reading the screen
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because of the color.
Accessibility shortcut: Quickly turn on accessibility features by performing a special
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gesture:
• Press and hold the Power/Lock key until you hear a sound or feel a vibration, and then
press and hold with two fingers until you hear an audio confirmation.
Text-to-speech options: Configure options for converting text to speech.
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Configure Hearing Accessibility Settings

Your phone offers many features to assist users who are deaf or hearing-impaired.
1. From home, tap
2. Tap Accessibility > Hearing to configure options:
Flash notification: Blink the Camera flash for notifications.
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Turn off all sounds: When enabled, every sound made by the phone during taps, selections,
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notifications, etc. is muted.
Hearing aids: Improve the sound quality of your device for use with hearing aids.
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Samsung subtitles (CC): When turned on, your phone displays Samsung subtitles where
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available. Tap the ON/OFF switch to turn the option on or off, and then tap Samsung
subtitles to configure options.
Settings
Apps > Settings.
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