{"kind":"guides","slug":"turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","path":"/guides/turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","title":"Turn Off Narrator: Mac, Xbox, PS5, Chromebook | SuperClonica","description":"Computer or Xbox reading everything aloud? Turn off VoiceOver on Mac, ChromeVox on Chromebook and Narrator on Xbox or Windows with one shortcut.","h1":"How to turn off the narrator on Mac, Chromebook and Xbox","intro":"If a computer or console suddenly starts reading menus aloud, a built-in screen reader is on: VoiceOver on a Mac, ChromeVox on a Chromebook, Narrator on Xbox and Windows. They are essential for blind and low-vision people, and each has a keyboard or controller shortcut that is easy to press by accident.\n\nHere are the shortcuts and settings from Apple’s, Google’s and Microsoft’s own help pages.","sections":[{"heading":"Mac: turn off VoiceOver","paragraphs":["Press Command-F5. If your Mac or Magic Keyboard has Touch ID, you can instead hold the Command key and quickly press Touch ID three times. You can also ask Siri, or choose Apple menu, System Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver and switch it off. Option-Command-F5 opens the Accessibility Shortcuts panel, where VoiceOver is one of the options."]},{"heading":"Chromebook: turn off ChromeVox","paragraphs":["Press Ctrl + Alt + Z on any page; the same keys turn ChromeVox on and off. On Chromebook tablets without a keyboard, Google describes holding Volume down and Volume up together for about five seconds to start ChromeVox."]},{"heading":"Xbox: turn off Narrator","paragraphs":["On the controller, press and hold the Xbox button until it vibrates, then press the Menu button; repeat the same steps to turn Narrator off. You can also press the Xbox button to open the guide and go to Profile and system, Settings, Accessibility, Narrator. With a keyboard, press the Windows logo key + Ctrl + Enter."]},{"heading":"PS5: turn off the Screen Reader","paragraphs":["On PlayStation 5, go to the home screen and select Settings, Accessibility, Screen Reader, then switch Screen Reader off. While it is reading, pressing the PS button and the triangle button together pauses or resumes speech. The screen reader speaks the console language and is available only in some languages."]},{"heading":"Windows PC: turn off Narrator","paragraphs":["On Windows the shortcut is the same as on a keyboard plugged into an Xbox: the Windows logo key + Ctrl + Enter turns Narrator on and off. Our guide to Microsoft Narrator covers its settings and voices in more detail."]},{"heading":"Stop it from coming back","paragraphs":["Almost every surprise screen reader is a shortcut pressed by accident: a key combination, a held controller button or three quick Touch ID presses. On Xbox you can turn on Warn me when turning Narrator on in the Narrator settings so the console asks first. If you need spoken audio rather than a screen reader, for example narration for a video, a text to speech engine that saves audio files is the better tool."]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do I turn off VoiceOver on a Mac?","answer":"Press Command-F5, or hold Command and quickly press Touch ID three times. You can also use System Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver."},{"question":"How do I turn off the narrator on a Chromebook?","answer":"Press Ctrl + Alt + Z. The same shortcut turns ChromeVox on and off."},{"question":"How do I turn off the narrator on Xbox?","answer":"Hold the Xbox button until the controller vibrates, then press the Menu button. Or go to Settings, Accessibility, Narrator."},{"question":"How do I turn off the voice on PS5?","answer":"Go to Settings, Accessibility, Screen Reader and turn Screen Reader off. PS button plus triangle pauses it."},{"question":"How do I turn off Narrator on Windows?","answer":"Press the Windows logo key + Ctrl + Enter."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine"},"sources":[{"label":"Apple: Turn VoiceOver on or off on Mac","url":"https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/turn-voiceover-on-or-off-vo2682/mac"},{"label":"Google: Use the built-in screen reader on your Chromebook","url":"https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7031755"},{"label":"Xbox Support: Turn on and adjust Narrator","url":"https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/accessibility/narrator-on-xbox-one"},{"label":"PlayStation: Accessibility settings on PS5 consoles","url":"https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-accessibility-settings/"}],"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-talkback-voiceover","path":"/guides/turn-off-talkback-voiceover","h1":"How to turn off TalkBack on Android or VoiceOver on iPhone"},{"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":"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":"turn-off-audio-description","path":"/guides/turn-off-audio-description","h1":"How to turn off audio description on Netflix, Prime Video and your TV"},{"slug":"iphone-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/iphone-text-to-speech","h1":"iPhone text to speech: Speak Selection and Speak Screen"},{"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":"chromebook-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/chromebook-text-to-speech","h1":"Chromebook text to speech: how to have text read aloud"},{"slug":"minecraft-narrator","path":"/guides/minecraft-narrator","h1":"Minecraft narrator: turn it off, change it, or give your map real voices"},{"slug":"turn-off-caller-name-announcement","path":"/guides/turn-off-caller-name-announcement","h1":"How to stop your phone announcing who is calling"},{"slug":"mute-navigation-voice","path":"/guides/mute-navigation-voice","h1":"How to turn off the voice in Google Maps, Apple Maps and Waze"},{"slug":"voicemail-greeting-generator","path":"/guides/voicemail-greeting-generator","h1":"Voicemail greeting generator: a calm AI voice for your phone"}],"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"}]}