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WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH

I accidentally turned on this voice activated thing that highlights every letter I type and speaks each command out loud. WHAT DO I DO ????

Posted - May 16, 2019
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  • 23577
    Wish I could help.
    Hope you get it figured out.
    :)
    Stuff like that happens to me, too, sometimes.
      May 16, 2019 9:33 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    THis is making it almost impossible to type, my sound system has taken over so badly I cannot even turn my volume up and every letter I type has a blue box over it.  I can hardly see anything, I'm typing as I type.  THIS IS SO ANNOYING.  
      May 16, 2019 9:37 AM MDT
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  • 23577
    Sounds really irritating, yes!
    Hang in there!
      May 16, 2019 10:06 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I am actually getting used to it and adapting.  We humans are amazing.  I am looking past this horrid blue square around each letter that I type and turning the  volume off.  It repeats out loud every letter I type, every word I write and every action I do.  It must be for the blind.  Maybe I can find out how to dismantle it if I can find out where special operations for handicapped may be on here.  I will find it.  
      May 16, 2019 11:59 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Go to General; then to Settings; Scroll to Accessibility; then turn off speech This post was edited by Don Barzini at May 17, 2019 12:30 AM MDT
      May 16, 2019 12:13 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Okay.  Before I thank you profusely, I am going to try it out.  Not going to work.  I don't have any of those prompts. I am on Microsoft Edge and Windows 10 if that means anything. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 17, 2019 12:30 AM MDT
      May 16, 2019 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    1. I have no general.  
    first of all.  So this does not bode well.  This thing looks like more than just speech. I think it is for the handicapped.  I think it is for the blind.  
      May 16, 2019 1:09 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    My apologies. I am on an iMac, and that is how it works on here. 
    Good luck. 
      May 16, 2019 2:17 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Don't apologize at all.  I think it helped because it steered me in the right direction. I succeeded.  I had to turn off narrator.  I had to go on some weird journey to get there, but I got help from Windows.  THANK GOD. You don't want that narrator  thing on ever. It was so insane.  
      May 16, 2019 2:32 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    The similar function on Apple is  just as horrible. 
      May 16, 2019 2:39 PM MDT
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  • 53509


      Re-program it for self-hypnosis, then teach it to repeat this while you sleep: "Make sandwiches for Randy D, I must make sandwiches for Randy D, make sandwiches for Randy D, I must make sandwiches for Randy D, make sandwiches for Randy D, I must make sandwiches for Randy D, make sandwiches for Randy D, I must make sandwiches for Randy D." Everything will be fine after that.

    ~


      May 17, 2019 12:33 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    turn it off
      May 19, 2019 2:56 PM MDT
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