diff --git a/core/java/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.java b/core/java/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.java
index bb6b4b0385d84..8f8d976858d74 100755
--- a/core/java/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.java
+++ b/core/java/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.java
@@ -921,8 +921,10 @@ public class TextToSpeech {
                 mCachedParams[Engine.TTS_PARAM_POSITION_LANGUAGE + 1] = loc.getISO3Language();
                 mCachedParams[Engine.TTS_PARAM_POSITION_COUNTRY + 1] = loc.getISO3Country();
                 mCachedParams[Engine.TTS_PARAM_POSITION_VARIANT + 1] = loc.getVariant();
-
-                result = mITts.setLanguage(mPackageName,
+                // the language is not set here, instead it is cached so it will be associated
+                // with all upcoming utterances. But we still need to report the language support,
+                // which is achieved by calling isLanguageAvailable()
+                result = mITts.isLanguageAvailable(
                         mCachedParams[Engine.TTS_PARAM_POSITION_LANGUAGE + 1],
                         mCachedParams[Engine.TTS_PARAM_POSITION_COUNTRY + 1],
                         mCachedParams[Engine.TTS_PARAM_POSITION_VARIANT + 1] );