{"kind":"guides","slug":"minecraft-narrator","path":"/guides/minecraft-narrator","title":"Minecraft Narrator: Turn Off, Ctrl+B Hotkey | SuperClonica","description":"How the Minecraft narrator works: turn it off, stop Ctrl+B from switching it on, pick All, Chat or System, set language and volume, voice your own lines.","h1":"Minecraft narrator: turn it off, change it, or give your map real voices","intro":"Minecraft has a built-in narrator that reads chat and menu text aloud, a useful accessibility feature that many players first meet when it switches on by accident. This guide explains how it works in Java Edition and how to turn it off for good, following the Minecraft Wiki.\n\nAt the end you will find how to give your own maps and servers voiced lines that sound better than a system voice.","sections":[{"heading":"Turn the narrator on or off","paragraphs":["In Java Edition, press Ctrl+B, or Cmd+B on a Mac, to switch the narrator on or off, or change it in the accessibility settings. Bedrock Edition calls the same feature text to speech; look for it in the Accessibility section of the settings."]},{"heading":"Stop Ctrl+B from turning it on","paragraphs":["If the narrator keeps switching on while you play, it is usually the Ctrl+B shortcut. Since Java 1.20.2 the accessibility settings have a Narrator Hotkey option that disables the shortcut, so the narrator only changes when you choose it in the menu."]},{"heading":"All, Chat or System","paragraphs":["The narrator has four modes: Off; All, which reads chat and system messages; Chat, which reads only player messages; and System, which reads only interface text, command output and notifications. Chat is handy on a busy server when you want to hear messages without the menus."]},{"heading":"Language, voice and volume","paragraphs":["The narrator speaks with a voice of your operating system, so its language follows the system and cannot be changed in the game; on Linux it needs the Flite speech package. In recent Java versions its loudness follows the Voice slider in the sound settings."]},{"heading":"Give your map real voices","paragraphs":["The narrator reads text with a system voice; it cannot play a character. For voiced NPCs, quest givers or a narrator in an adventure map, make the lines as sound files and add them with a resource pack, or with the AudioPlayer mod on a Fabric server. Hear voices free on their pages with a line of 30 to 100 characters, and voice whole sets offline with the free SuperClonica engine."]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do I turn off the Minecraft narrator?","answer":"In Java Edition press Ctrl+B (Cmd+B on Mac) or set the narrator to Off in the accessibility settings. In Bedrock, look for text to speech in the Accessibility settings."},{"question":"Why does the narrator keep turning on?","answer":"Usually because Ctrl+B was pressed. Since Java 1.20.2 you can disable that shortcut with the Narrator Hotkey option in the accessibility settings."},{"question":"Can I change the narrator’s voice or language?","answer":"It uses your operating system’s voice, so the language follows the system and cannot be changed in the game."},{"question":"Can the narrator sound like a character?","answer":"No, it reads text with a system voice. For character voices, make sound files and add them with a resource pack or a mod."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse game character voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine","voices":"game-characters"},"sources":[{"label":"Minecraft Wiki: Narrator","url":"https://minecraft.wiki/w/Narrator"},{"label":"Minecraft Wiki: Options","url":"https://minecraft.wiki/w/Options"},{"label":"SuperClonica engine on PyPI","url":"https://pypi.org/project/superclonica-cpu/"}],"published":"2026-10-31","updated":"2026-10-31","pages":[{"slug":"twitch-chat-tts","path":"/guides/twitch-chat-tts","h1":"Twitch chat TTS with character voices"},{"slug":"turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","path":"/guides/turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","h1":"How to turn off the narrator on Mac, Chromebook and Xbox"},{"slug":"animalese-generator","path":"/guides/animalese-generator","h1":"Animalese generator: make Animal Crossing style babble"},{"slug":"windows-narrator-voice","path":"/guides/windows-narrator-voice","h1":"Microsoft Narrator in Windows: how to turn it on or off and change its voice"},{"slug":"discord-tts-command","path":"/guides/discord-tts-command","h1":"Discord text to speech: how /tts works, how to turn it off and fix it"},{"slug":"ps5-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/ps5-text-to-speech","h1":"PS5 text to speech: type in party chat, and how to turn it off"},{"slug":"youtube-auto-dubbing","path":"/guides/youtube-auto-dubbing","h1":"YouTube auto-dubbing: how to turn it off, and how to dub in your own voice"},{"slug":"turn-off-talkback-voiceover","path":"/guides/turn-off-talkback-voiceover","h1":"How to turn off TalkBack on Android or VoiceOver on iPhone"},{"slug":"quizlet-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/quizlet-text-to-speech","h1":"Quizlet text to speech: how it works and why it goes silent"},{"slug":"turn-off-caller-name-announcement","path":"/guides/turn-off-caller-name-announcement","h1":"How to stop your phone announcing who is calling"},{"slug":"php-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/php-text-to-speech","h1":"Text to speech in PHP and WordPress, offline"},{"slug":"minecraft-custom-voice-lines","path":"/guides/minecraft-custom-voice-lines","h1":"Minecraft custom voice lines for NPCs and maps"}],"related":[{"slug":"text-to-speech","path":"/text-to-speech","h1":"Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer"},{"slug":"supertonic","path":"/compare/supertonic","h1":"Supertonic vs SuperClonica: same model, faster and cleaner"},{"slug":"fish-audio","path":"/compare/fish-audio","h1":"Fish Audio and Fish Speech vs SuperClonica"},{"slug":"omnivoice","path":"/compare/omnivoice","h1":"OmniVoice vs SuperClonica: more languages or more speed"},{"slug":"qwen3-tts","path":"/compare/qwen3-tts","h1":"Qwen3-TTS vs SuperClonica for local text-to-speech"},{"slug":"voxcpm","path":"/compare/voxcpm","h1":"VoxCPM 2 vs SuperClonica: studio sound or CPU speed"},{"slug":"f5-tts","path":"/compare/f5-tts","h1":"F5-TTS vs SuperClonica: zero-shot cloning or fast CPU speech"},{"slug":"elevenlabs","path":"/compare/elevenlabs","h1":"An offline alternative to ElevenLabs"},{"slug":"kokoro","path":"/compare/kokoro","h1":"Kokoro TTS vs SuperClonica: two small models for local speech"},{"slug":"piper","path":"/compare/piper","h1":"Piper TTS vs SuperClonica: tiny devices or custom voices"},{"slug":"xtts","path":"/compare/xtts","h1":"Coqui XTTS-v2 vs SuperClonica: a Coqui TTS alternative"},{"slug":"chatterbox","path":"/compare/chatterbox","h1":"Chatterbox TTS vs SuperClonica: instant cloning or a trained voice file"}]}