How to Stop Your Roku Device from Talking to You by Turning Off its Audio Guide?

Stop Roku Device from Talking to You by Turning Off its Audio Guide -

If your Roku device is talking to you mainly when it is reading your interface loudly as you go through the menu and selecting with the remote control that suggests that your audio guide is enabled.

The audio guide is a convenient feature for those users who have the requirement to navigate through the system, Whenever the audio guide is enabled it will read through your menu as you navigate through it.

There are two simple ways to stop your Roku device from talking to you by turning off its Audio Guide:

1. Turning the Audio Guide On and Off by Pressing the * Button four Times                                                     

You can stop your Roku device from talking to you by turning off its Audio guide by pressing the * button four times which you can find in your remote. This button is also known as the options button or you can say it is a * button.

When an audio guide is enabled your Roku device reads the menus loudly or whatever comes on the screen, it can be useful sometimes by listening to the option you can select it by pressing the OK button on the remote control.                                   

If the audio guide is turned on by default or accidentally activates the audio guide, you can just turn it off by pressing the * button four times as suggested.

Sometimes Roku devices do not respond to your command prompt then you do not need to panic, just give it some time to catch up to you and it will respond to your command.

2. Turning the Audio Guide On or Off from the Menu

You have the option to stop your Roku device from talking to you by turning off its Audio Guide present in the menu setting if you like to turn it off from the menu. This option is present in the setting of your Roku device.

• Search the home button on your Roku remote, you can find the menu by pressing it and then go and find the setting in the option available which will be visible on your left side of your home screen.
• After selecting the setting it will open a new page, there you will find accessibility. After pressing accessibility there will be an option for an Audio guide.

• After pressing the Audio guide a new page will open up in which you can choose to turn the speaking on or off,

• Here you can disable the audio of speaking by selecting the off option.

Set Other Options or Disable the Shortcut

You can always disable the shortcut from your setting. Go to the setting and then find accessibility, on this page you can the shortcut option after pressing it you have to select the disable option.

But now you cannot stop your Roku device from talking to you by turning off its Audio Guide with the help of the Roku remote by pressing the * button. You will always have the option of activating it by going to the shortcut option on your setting.

Another option for the Roku audio guide is for the speech rate which is slow, normal, fast, or very fast, and the volume to low, medium, or high.