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Cannot enter PIN after turning on Talk to Text on my Galaxy A15 5G

(Topic created: 09-17-2025 06:29 AM)
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ckid
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I turned on Talk to Text to try its features.  After my phone locked, I cannot get it to recognize the PIN code I enter.  It will take the first number, but gets stuck on it and won't proceed to the next number.  Instead it enters the first number again.  If I press the back button to delete the number, it clicks on OK instead and the phone announces that my PIN is wrong.  I'm afraid I may get locked out of my phone.  I've tried pressing the person (talk to text) at the bottom of the screen to try and disable it, but it doesn't acknowledge my request. 

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ckid
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After posting this, I was able to get my phone to accept the PIN.  I had to drag my finger down the page and then stop on the desired number button.  This is not obvious.  I think Samsung needs to work on this feature so that you can tap each number like you would if not using Talk to Text.  I've turned off Talk to Text.  I was hoping that it might be useable for reading eBooks, but it only seems able to talk about the navigation and not the text on the screen.

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realaud
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Where did you turn it on, in accessibility settings?  Did you turn on any other accessibility options like changing the tap duration? I do not see how talk to text would interfere with your putting in your PIN.  TTT isn't usually active until you enable it, either by tapping the mic on/near the keyboard (depending which keyboard you use), or the voice icon on the PIN screen.  It's always a choice to type or talk.  There may be something that glitched out on you when you turned it on. When was the last time you cleared your phone's cache partition?

 

For reading e-books you would turn on text to speech,  which you would configure in the Bixby Vision settings and I believe most e-book readers have a read aloud feature. I could be wrong, as Kindle requires Audible.   If you use the Edge web browser, it can read web pages aloud to you.  You can tell Bixby to read the books aloud to you, I think. I don't use Bixby, so I am not sure.

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