{"kind":"guides","slug":"turn-off-audio-description","path":"/guides/turn-off-audio-description","title":"Turn Off Audio Description on Netflix and TV | SuperClonica","description":"Turn off audio description, the voice describing the picture, on Netflix, Prime Video, Fire TV and Samsung TVs, and what to check if it keeps coming back.","h1":"How to turn off audio description on Netflix, Prime Video and your TV","intro":"Audio description is a narrator who describes what happens on screen between the lines of dialogue, made for blind and low-vision viewers. It usually comes as a separate audio track, so if you switched it on by accident, you turn it off by choosing the normal track again, in the app or on the TV.\n\nThis guide collects the steps from Netflix, Prime Video and Samsung’s own help pages.","sections":[{"heading":"Netflix","paragraphs":["Start playing a title and open the controls: tap or click the screen on a phone, tablet or computer, or press up or down on a TV remote. Select Audio & Subtitles, choose Other if you do not see every option, and pick an audio track without Audio Description in its name."]},{"heading":"Prime Video and Fire TV","paragraphs":["During playback, press up on the remote and open Audio & Languages, or on the web and in the apps use the subtitles menu, and pick the track without the [Audio Description] tag. On a computer, the A key cycles through the audio tracks. Fire TV also has a general setting: Settings, Accessibility, Audio Descriptions, where you can switch it off for Prime Video; it is separate from the choice you make for one title."]},{"heading":"Disney+","paragraphs":["On Disney+, audio description is an extra audio track, chosen in the same place as the audio language. While a video plays, open the Audio and Subtitles settings in the upper right corner and pick the audio track that is not marked as audio description. Disney+ notes that availability depends on the title, language and country or region."]},{"heading":"YouTube","paragraphs":["On YouTube, audio description is a separate descriptive audio track that a creator uploads next to the original or dubbed audio. In the video player, open Settings, then Audio track, and choose the plain track instead of the descriptive one. The same menu also switches off an automatically dubbed language."]},{"heading":"Samsung TV","paragraphs":["Open Settings, All Settings, General & Privacy, called General on some older models, then Accessibility, and switch Audio Description off. Holding the Volume button on the remote for about two seconds opens the Accessibility Shortcuts, where Audio Description can also be switched off. Samsung notes that audio description only plays when the broadcast supports it."]},{"heading":"If it keeps coming back","paragraphs":["Check both places: the app’s audio track and the TV’s accessibility settings. If you watch through a cable, satellite or streaming box, the description may come from the box, so look in its own audio settings. A TV that reads its menus aloud is a different feature; see our guide on turning off a TV’s voice guide."]},{"heading":"Making audio description yourself","paragraphs":["If you publish videos, adding audio description makes them accessible to blind viewers. You can voice the descriptions with a calm narrator, free on any voice page for a line of 30 to 100 characters or offline with the free SuperClonica engine, and mix them into the gaps between dialogue."]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do I turn off audio description on Netflix?","answer":"Open Audio & Subtitles while watching and choose an audio track without Audio Description in its name."},{"question":"How do I turn off audio description on Prime Video?","answer":"Open Audio & Languages and pick the track without [Audio Description]. On Fire TV you can also turn it off in Settings, Accessibility, Audio Descriptions."},{"question":"How do I turn off audio description on Disney+?","answer":"While the video plays, open the Audio and Subtitles settings in the upper right corner and choose the audio track without audio description."},{"question":"How do I turn off audio description on a Samsung TV?","answer":"Settings, All Settings, General & Privacy, Accessibility, Audio Description, then switch it off; or hold Volume for about two seconds to open the shortcuts."},{"question":"Why do I still hear the description?","answer":"It may be set in the app as well as on the TV, or come from a cable or satellite box; check the audio settings in each place."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse narrator voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine","voices":"announcers"},"sources":[{"label":"Netflix Help: Audio Description","url":"https://help.netflix.com/en/node/25079"},{"label":"Prime Video Help: change audio language and description","url":"https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=GYWG45TK599P4KUL"},{"label":"Samsung: accessibility features on a Samsung TV","url":"https://www.samsung.com/au/support/tv-audio-video/using-the-accessibility-feature-settings-on-a-samsung-tv/"},{"label":"Disney+ Help: Accessibility features on Disney+","url":"https://help.disneyplus.com/en-GB/article/disneyplus-en-fr-accessibility"},{"label":"YouTube Help: Add audio descriptions","url":"https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16166822?hl=en"},{"label":"YouTube Help: Watch videos in your preferred language","url":"https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13339776"}],"published":"2026-10-31","updated":"2026-10-31","pages":[{"slug":"tv-voice-guide-off","path":"/guides/tv-voice-guide-off","h1":"How to turn off the voice guide on a TV"},{"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":"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":"audio-description-voice","path":"/guides/audio-description-voice","h1":"Audio description voice for videos"},{"slug":"turn-off-talkback-voiceover","path":"/guides/turn-off-talkback-voiceover","h1":"How to turn off TalkBack on Android or VoiceOver on iPhone"},{"slug":"turn-off-caller-name-announcement","path":"/guides/turn-off-caller-name-announcement","h1":"How to stop your phone announcing who is calling"},{"slug":"notion-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/notion-text-to-speech","h1":"Notion text to speech: an audio version of any page"},{"slug":"bulk-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/bulk-text-to-speech","h1":"Bulk text to speech from a spreadsheet"},{"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":"iphone-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/iphone-text-to-speech","h1":"iPhone text to speech: Speak Selection and Speak Screen"},{"slug":"samsung-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/samsung-text-to-speech","h1":"Samsung text to speech: settings, voices and engine"},{"slug":"chromebook-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/chromebook-text-to-speech","h1":"Chromebook text to speech: how to have text read aloud"}],"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"}]}