# Configure Text to Speech

To configure Text-to-Speech:

1. From the Main menu, select (S) System Maintenance, (R) Reconfigure System, (U) Unified Messaging, and then (A) Advanced UM.

2. Select (T) Text to Speech parameters.

3. Select (R) TTS rate of speech and then enter a value between 1 and 9 (1 being a very slow rate of speech and 9 being a very fast rate of speech).

4. Select (V) TTS volume and then enter a value between 1 and 9 (1 being low volume and 9 being high volume).

5. (Optional) Select (F) Implicit Email Count Timeout and enter the number of seconds to wait for the system to present the summary of voice mail and email messages before skipping the summary and prompting instead to "Press 3 for email or press 8 for voice mail". (Default is 5.)

6. (Optional) Select (S) Explicit Email Count Timeout and enter the number of seconds to wait for the system to access email (after the user has pressed "3" for email) before responding with a "system is busy - please try again later" message and initializing the mailbox. (Default is 15.)

Note: User Dictionary configuration is only available through the Web Console.
Parent topic: Procedures (Text Console)