Making your computer talk using Windows Narrator

Note: Windows Narrator is a basic screen-reading program. It offers speech feedback in a variety of situations (i.e. all menus and dialog boxes, Windows Explorer and Notepad) but will not speak in some parts of most applications (i.e. a Word document or web page). It can be set to echo your keystrokes (this will work in all situations).

To activate Windows Narrator:

• Open the Start menu by clicking on the Start button or by pressing the Windows logo key (located between the Ctrl and Alt keys) - or Ctrl + Esc
• Click on All Programs or alternatively press P on the keyboard until All Programs is highlighted and then Enter.
• Click on Accessories or press A on the keyboard until Accessories is highlighted and then press Enter.
• Click on Accessibility or if you are using the keyboard, it will already be highlighted so just press Enter.
• Click on Accessibility or if you are using the keyboard, it will already be highlighted so just press Enter.
• Click on Narrator or press N and when Narrator is highlighted, press Enter on the keyboard.
• The Microsoft Narrator foreground window appears and the narrator immediately starts talking and reads out the instructions on how to use this feature. (see fig. 1)
  

  
  Fig 1

• After clicking on the OK button, another window appears which has various options which you can select by clicking on the checkbox or tabbing to the checkbox and pressing the spacebar. You can also adjust the voice settings from here by clicking on Voice or pressing V on the keyboard. (see fig 2)
  

  
  Fig 2