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Windows 10: Disable Narrator Voice

Windows 10: Disable Narrator Voice

Posted on by Mitch Bartlett 14 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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  1. Khwaja says

    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.

  3. Michael Jeyabalan says

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

  4. Anton says

    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.

  6. Tracey S says

    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.

  8. Ann Auzine says

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

  9. Chris Maros says

    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.

  10. JJ says

    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.

  11. Jim says

    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.

  13. Shawn Netolicky says

    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??

  14. pebble says

    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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