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This is a fun one: somehow, the screen reader accessibility setting has been turned on in my Raspberry Pi OS environment. I can't figure out how to turn it off! Other than turning off all audio, the only solution I've found is to uninstall the eSpeak module and supporting libraries, which is obviously not the ideal solution.
I've tried googling around but found only tutorials on how to install the text-to-speech.
Anyone know how this gets turned on and how one turns it off?
Hold down the Caps Lock key and press the S key.
It should say Speech Enabled/Disabled.
espeak is a speech synthesizer, it transforms text into sound but will not grab text from your screen and read it aloud. This is a function of screen reader. You have to find out which one you have and uninstall or disable it.
In case you got orca for a screen reader, it can be deactivated by removing /etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop.
/etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop I commented out the line Exec=orca, now it looks like this #Exec=orca. It worked, the annunciation stopped after reboot of Raspbian buster, Release 10 system.
Apr 8, 2021 at 8:12
Just uncheck orca from the recommended software area....it'll remove the orca packages for you
You might try to kill a specific process/es as described here. Please try and check if that helps. I checked my Raspberry Pi OS and orca is not installed by default.
sudo apt purge orca