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with offensive language are blocked.
• Hotword detection. When this is checked, you can say “Google”
when viewing the Google Now screen rather than touching the
Microphone icon to initiate a voice search or action.
To detect when you say “Google,” your tablet may record a few
seconds of ambient background noise in temporary memory
whenever the Google Now screen is open. This recording re-
mains on the device only fleetingly and is not sent to Google.
• Download offline speech recognition. Check to select one or
more additional languages for speech recognition when you
don’t have a network connection.
• Personalized recognition. Check to associate your recorded
voice with your Google Account. This improves speech rec-
ognition by allowing Google to customize voice recognition to
your voice.
Tablet search
The Tablet search settings let you select which apps on your tab-
let are included in Google searches.
Privacy and accounts
These settings control the account for use with Google Search
and search-related privacy options for that account. For more de-
tails, see the next section.
You can view Privacy and accounts in two ways:
• From the main Google Search screen: Touch
Menu > Set-