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Is Your Roku TV Talking To You? Here's Why And How To Turn It Off

Relax, that voice you're hearing is pretty easy to turn off.

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There are few things more terrifying than watching one of your favorite shows on Roku at night and suddenly hearing a disembodied voice coming from your screen. This robotic-sounding entity seems to know your every move, almost as if they're narrating your life — but not in a fun Stranger Than Fiction kind of way.

No, you're not losing your mind: The voice coming from the Roku TV is just the screen reader, a text-to-speech accessibility feature that makes the app easier to navigate for people who are visually impaired. That's why the voice is constantly narrating all the on-screen text.

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But if you're not someone who normally benefits from having a screen reader, you most likely triggered it by accident with the Roku remote. By default, the...

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