Narrator voice randomly speaking on Windows 10

dalchina said:

Is this perhaps occurring in Edge? There's a read aloud option there, independent of Narrator.
I wonder if Chrome has its own..

I am using chrome, so I don't know about Edge..
I did a quick google search and it seems like you need to install an addon in chrome..

unless someone knows otherwise

dalchina said:

There are such add-ons, yes:

yes,
unfortunately I don't have any such extensions installed..

Okay I think I have a working theory of what is causing this problem..

Just had an insight into the problem!

I think this problem might be related to https://discordapp.com/

I got this Chrome tab opened permanently since october..and it has chats going on in the channels

And I just checked in the settings on the site
and there is this setting..

Text to speech

Allow playback and usage of /tts command




I think this might be the reason why there is random narrator voice talking crap
and yet there is no narrator software showing in the task bar.

I think it starts talking when someone sends this /tts to the channel.

I am pretty certain this is the cause.
I will test to see if this is the case.

EyeInTheSky said:

Did you turn the narrator off in the "Ease of Access Center" from the Control Panel? You said you made sure "Use Narrator" is turned off, but were unclear as to how you accessed it.

dalchina said:

You could try an experiment just to confirm it is the Narrator - change the voice it uses and see if it matches what you hear.

Just an update on this problem

Okay I now know the cause of this annoying problem.

It is definitely the discordapp website.
I was just looking at a channel, and it read the message on that channel with the same robot voice.

dalchina said:

Glad you've found it.

thanks for trying to help

I now know the cause of the problem..

Now to test a few solutions..

Knowing the cause is half battle to finding the solution..