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Windows 10: Disable Narrator Voice

Windows 10: Disable Narrator Voice

By Mitch Bartlett 26 Comments

If you’ve accidentally enabled the Narrator feature in Microsoft Windows 10 and hear a narrator voice when you type, start your computer, or mouse over an item. You can turn it off with a simple setting. Here’s how it’s done.

Quick Method 1

  • Hold the Windows Key and press “Enter“.

Quick Method 2

  • Hold the “Caps Lock” key and press “Esc“

Long Method

  1. Select “Start” > “Settings” (gear icon).
  2. Open “Ease of Access“.
  3. Select “Narrator“.
  4. Toggle “Narrator” to “Off“. Also toggle “Start Narrator automatically” to “Off” if you don’t want the voice at startup.

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Filed Under: Windows Tagged With: Windows 10

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  1. Lettie says

    June 1, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    Thank you! That narrator was driving me crazy.

  2. helen goss says

    May 16, 2022 at 3:11 pm

    I too have tries to turn navigator off. Nothing seems to work. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks, Helen

  3. emmanuel says

    January 27, 2022 at 5:46 am

    @Priyadharsan
    Thanks. I uninstalled my NV DA and the narrator stopped.

  4. Empee says

    November 1, 2021 at 5:26 pm

    Method 2 worked for me. Thank Yoooo.

  5. Deborah says

    July 23, 2021 at 11:58 am

    None of those methods work for me I’ve been doing it for day after day and none of them work on the new lenovo idea pad with Microsoft None of that Shut her up!! I did deep dive and that didn’t work either..it shouldn’t be this Aggravating

  6. Dubidel Legodi says

    October 28, 2020 at 9:14 am

    I used the long method..thank you

  7. Jacqueline Harris says

    October 16, 2020 at 1:33 pm

    Method #2 worked!!!!!

  8. Saroj kumandan says

    October 4, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    Tysm…. It helped me

  9. Dipak Vaghela says

    March 31, 2020 at 11:22 pm

    Thank you very much for help me for solving this problem … Thank you very much once again to your team…

  10. ps says

    February 11, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    no one can tell us what the solution is when the solutions offered above don’t work. This is very exasperating. Solutions used to work in the past – Nothing works to turn it off. What is the answer????????????

  11. DWong says

    January 9, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    Thank you! Quick method #2 worked for me. I have no idea what turned it on in the first place.

  12. Priyadharsan says

    September 26, 2019 at 11:05 pm

    Try to uninstall screen reader application like NVDA if any unknowingly installed in your system.

  13. Khwaja says

    September 14, 2019 at 7:45 am

    I’ve tried all of these methods of turning off Narrator and none of them have worked for me. This started happening yesterday when I added code to Excel. I finally rebooted and the Narrator finally stopped. However, today, when I opened Excel, the Narrator automatically started AGAIN. Everything for Narrator (in Windows) and Speak (in Excel) is turned off.

  14. Phung Phuong says

    September 5, 2019 at 11:00 am

    Dont know why pp out there need this function :D.
    Method 3 works for me

  15. Michael Jeyabalan says

    August 9, 2019 at 1:16 pm

    I too tried everything. did not work. only keeping the speaker volume at zero. Very annoying.

  16. Anton says

    August 8, 2019 at 3:24 am

    I tried every method available in Google to keep narrator off. Long method, short cutts, toggle off. Nothing work. How do I uninstall the thing?
    Only thing left is to remove speakers.

  17. Ken Odeluga says

    May 13, 2019 at 10:50 am

    You’ve just saved my bacon. Thank you!

  18. Tracey S says

    March 29, 2019 at 7:34 am

    I’ve tried all of these methods of turning off Narrator and none of them have worked for me. This started happening yesterday when I added code to Excel. I finally rebooted and the Narrator finally stopped. However, today, when I opened Excel, the Narrator automatically started AGAIN. Everything for Narrator (in Windows) and Speak (in Excel) is turned off. What the heck????? Sooooooooooo annoying.

  19. ~ says

    February 26, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    Method 2 worked for me. Thanks!

  20. Ann Auzine says

    January 21, 2019 at 10:43 am

    I researched everywhere and finally found your site to turn off my Narrator. Tip 2 did the trick! Thank You!

  21. Chris Maros says

    January 18, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    This ‘Disabling’ Narrator is not working.
    I have a 2 in 1 laptop, the narrator is disabled!!!
    whenever I switch from laptop to tablet, the narrator comes on, I don’t hear any voice, but the two shifts are locked and the keyboard is unusable, and I haven’t found a way to deactivate it while in tablet..

    Why are we forced with that stupid stuff anyway… This should be part of windows features that we can uninstall. but no, apparently it’s another “you will have this thing, cause we want you to” MS minded thing.

  22. JJ says

    December 10, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    I tried and tried all the above suggestions, which I have successfully used in the past but none worked. How frustrating to find that simply hitting Escape alone-no additional button-was what finally worked.

  23. Jim says

    November 26, 2018 at 7:55 am

    Thank for this page. The long method worked and showed me the shortcut on my Windows 10 Pro x64, version 1803 (Build 10.0.17134) computer is Win+Ctrl+Enter. Quick Method 1 leaves out the Ctrl button. I assume Microsoft made another change.

  24. Mitch Bartlett says

    November 9, 2018 at 1:40 pm

    In Media Player while the video is playing, go to “Main Menu” > “Special Features” and set “Commentary” to “Off”.

  25. Shawn Netolicky says

    November 9, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    My Narrator is set to off yetI still hear commentary when I am playing a movie in Media Player 14. Not sure what steps to take at this point. Any ideas??

  26. pebble says

    October 23, 2018 at 9:01 am

    Thank you for this tip. I accidentally activated the Narrator with a random hotkey press and this was the first page I found that correctly showed how to turn it off.

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