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
- Hold the Windows Key and press “Enter“.
Quick Method 2
- Hold the “Caps Lock” key and press “Esc“
Long Method
- Select “Start” > “Settings“.
- Open “Ease of Access“.
- Select “Narrator“.
- Toggle “Narrator” to “Off“.
deb says
Caps Lock and Esc worked for me. Thank goodness —- drove me mad!!!
Shane says
I’ve had this thing going on all day now and nothing is working. Bottom right clicking off restarting, Windows key + control + enter, Windows key + enter, Caps lock + Esc, nothing is working for me and I cant do anything on my computer because it wont stop talking for anything that I do.
Eduardo says
Thanks! It worked perfectly with caps lock + escape. It was driving me crazy. I don’t know what Microsoft was thinking when they came up with this with no means of turning it off. A simple toggle switch would have done. THANKS!
Antony Jesuraj says
Dear friends in the desktop bottom of right side you can see the speaker symbol right click and select SOUND option there is box just scroll to the end there will be a subtitle WINDOWS SPEECH RECOGNITION below the 4th option OFF just click that and restart your computer
Shirley says
I hate this d***** thing!! HATE IT!! HATE IT!! Lost over an hour’s work last night at 2 am, and had to cancel everything and start all over. Could not get it to stop, and could not type. I want the blasted thing COMPLETELY OFF MY COMPUTER, NEVER TO COME ON AGAIN!! How can I do this????????? Who ever thought up a nightmare like this thing???
bacchi says
the long method does not work it is such a pain and unless you specifically need it it never never never should be on the computer Makes you want to go Apple instead
Jane says
Thank you! Other web pages tips didn’t work for me – the second one here did. (The first did not). When I went to the “ease of access” menu like so many other pages suggested, narrator was already turned off, so I did the same thing another person here did – I clicked it on and then off and then it just went into hyper-narrator voice. I honestly can’t imagine how a blind person could use that freaking narrator to use a computer. And the voice.. ugh, Microsoft, invest in a decent freaking voice synthesizer. Pay Amazon a license fee or something for the freaking voice synthesis technology they use – at least it’s not annoying like this one.
Thomas says
THANK YOU!! My friend was so annoyed and we managed to turn it off! Thanks so much!
Tess says
thank you, it was driving me crazy!
Inês Agudo says
Thank you!
Althesa says
DOES NOT WORK if you are not logged in. Is there any way to turn Narrator off while still at the Windows log-in screen? I am stuck in Windows Narrator Hell while trying to get my log-in to work…
abdol says
thank you pal
hejazi says
God bless you….
narrotors voice drives me crazyyyyy
Cindy says
The narration feature came on for the first time when I restarted my computer. I had never heard it before so was wondering which setting was switched. When I went to turn it off, I realized that it was already off, so I turned it on, and then it got stuck in that position! Luckily, the system narrated a tip for me, and that fixed it! My device has been really slow since this round of Windows 10 updates. I find the touchpad especially sticky.
Judith says
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life turning it off–I want to know how to permanently disable it!
Arthur says
After trying many other suggestions which were complicated and non of them worked your method 2 worked immediately .Thank you and keep up the good work.
Matthew says
Narrator turned itself on for no apparent reason. It’s so insanely irritating. The second solution worked for me. Thank you so much!