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By *urrey Dave 69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Epsom, Surrey

At home I browse Fabswingers on my laptop. This morning I was doing this but had taken a break and left my laptop turned on and the page happened to be on a profile I had been looking at. After about 5 or so minutes a female voice started reading out loud the details of the profile, their location, their interests etc.

My guess is that this is a Microsoft AI function kicking in but I have not (knowingly) turned any new programs on.

Luckily I was by myself but if I had left the room to do something and my son or daughter had been in the room it could have been extremely embarrassing. It probably isn't a Fabswingers function but I'm posting the issue on here as I think this is probably the most appropriate forum.

Can anyone advise what I can do to stop this happening again. In the meantime I've turned off the audio but I do need to keep remembering to do this so would like a better solution. I don't know if this AI function works with all websites

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By *awty_TwoCouple
over a year ago

near Ashford, kent


"At home I browse Fabswingers on my laptop. This morning I was doing this but had taken a break and left my laptop turned on and the page happened to be on a profile I had been looking at. After about 5 or so minutes a female voice started reading out loud the details of the profile, their location, their interests etc.

My guess is that this is a Microsoft AI function kicking in but I have not (knowingly) turned any new programs on.

Luckily I was by myself but if I had left the room to do something and my son or daughter had been in the room it could have been extremely embarrassing. It probably isn't a Fabswingers function but I'm posting the issue on here as I think this is probably the most appropriate forum.

Can anyone advise what I can do to stop this happening again. In the meantime I've turned off the audio but I do need to keep remembering to do this so would like a better solution. I don't know if this AI function works with all websites "

Just never leave a laptop unlocked if children in the house if there is anything on it if an adult nature.

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By *urrey Dave 69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Epsom, Surrey


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Just never leave a laptop unlocked if children in the house if there is anything on it if an adult nature. "

Yes, or never look at adult sites is another solution.

I was hoping that someone could advise me of a way to turn off whatever function caused this so I could continue using my laptop the way I've been doing for the last 20 years.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex

Windows 10 and 11 have a text to speech function called Narrator. You need to enable it though. Is that a possibility?

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By *CBoyTV/TS
over a year ago

Rhondda

Could be something for blind users. Check Accessabilty" in settings. I know a while a ago my phone started acting up like that and I'd accidentally touched some switch I didn't know existed

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By *urrey Dave 69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Epsom, Surrey


"Windows 10 and 11 have a text to speech function called Narrator. You need to enable it though. Is that a possibility?"

I didn't know that existed. I have checked but it is turned off. I have gone through other possibilities in the Settings and can't see anything else it might be

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"Windows 10 and 11 have a text to speech function called Narrator. You need to enable it though. Is that a possibility?

I didn't know that existed. I have checked but it is turned off. I have gone through other possibilities in the Settings and can't see anything else it might be"

You only need to press the windows key +control+enter to start it. Is it possible you did that?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex

Also Bing has a function called 'copilot' I'm not sure if that has text to speech.

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By *urrey Dave 69 OP   Man
over a year ago

Epsom, Surrey

Thanks everybody for the help

I'll put it down to me pressing something by mistake but will try and make sure I keep the audio turned off in case it happens again.

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