How do I stop Cortana from reading text's aloud?

[GazooAz]

How do I stop Cortana from reading text's aloud? She ask's me if i want her to read a text which is fine in the office but in the car it shuts off my music and it don't start playing again like it did before and i have to manually start the music playing which is a pain on a motorcycle.

Running windows 10 mobile on a 1520

 

[Ed Boland]

Hamburger menu - upper left corner on Cortana's screen. Choose "Notebook", then "Settings". Scroll down to where you can change "Read incoming text messages" to - Off, Always On, Bluetooth and Wired Headsets, or Bluetooth Only

 

[sinime]

Before turning it off, you might want to try checking your Bluetooth settings... If you go to Settings > Bluetooth, there is a button for advanced options which shows a check box to connect in a different manner... This sometimes fixes issues with the readback of texts.

If that doesn't work and you want to turn it off... Settings > speech, then under "read aloud incoming text messages" you can change it to off, headsets, Bluetooth, etc.

 

[Ed Boland]

If that doesn't work and you want to turn it off... Settings > speech, then under "read aloud incoming text messages" you can change it to off, headsets, Bluetooth, etc.

Just for clarity,

I believe he was asking these questions about Windows 10 mobile. The "Settings>speech" settings you're referring to are in WP8.1.

On Windows 10 mobile, the "read aloud incoming text messages" settings can only be reached through the method I posted above. (Cortana's hamburger menu)

 

[berty6294]

Hamburger menu - upper left corner on Cortana's screen. Choose "Notebook", then "Settings". Scroll down to where you can change "Read incoming text messages" to - Off, Always On, Bluetooth and Wired Headsets, or Bluetooth Only

This has been driving me insane. Glad you could help me find that setting!

 

[oldpueblo]

Hamburger menu - upper left corner on Cortana's screen. Choose "Notebook", then "Settings". Scroll down to where you can change "Read incoming text messages" to - Off, Always On, Bluetooth and Wired Headsets, or Bluetooth Only

Thanks for this, it was driving me crazy not being able to find it after upgrading to 10. I never thought to look in Cortana's settings since it wasn't there before in 8.1.

 

[Ed Boland]

Thanks for this, it was driving me crazy not being able to find it after upgrading to 10. I never thought to look in Cortana's settings since it wasn't there before in 8.1.

You're welcome!

Gotta love it when they move things around and hide stuff from users...

 

[Nimdock]

Thank you fort this thread. It was driving me nuts and I could not find the damn setting since they moved it for no reason at all.

Bluetooth connections are handled worse and worse with each new version of Windows.

 

[PepperdotNet]

It used to be "MS-DOS isn't done until Lotus doesn't run"

Now it's "Windows isn't finished until all the things work different."