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Help Stock email client has started reading my emails aloud

dylane

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Oct 22, 2010
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I've been mostly using Touchdown for my email, but my free trial just expired and I thought I'd try using the stock client for a bit before deciding whether I should plunk down $20 for TD. Yesterday during a meeting I was trying to send an email and all of a sudden my phone started reading the subject line of an email out loud. I had no idea what was going on at first, but I later found that hovering over an email with the S-pen causes this. I've looked through S-pen, email, and accessibility settings and haven't found any way to turn this off. Any hints?
 
I've been mostly using Touchdown for my email, but my free trial just expired and I thought I'd try using the stock client for a bit before deciding whether I should plunk down $20 for TD. Yesterday during a meeting I was trying to send an email and all of a sudden my phone started reading the subject line of an email out loud. I had no idea what was going on at first, but I later found that hovering over an email with the S-pen causes this. I've looked through S-pen, email, and accessibility settings and haven't found any way to turn this off. Any hints?

Try:
Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack > OFF

If that doesn't work and you have Lightflow try turning that off.
 
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If you have any apps enabled in accessability, try turning them off and see if the issue persists. I have found a few other apps that when enabled in accessability cause this talk back issue.

Notifier Pro seems to be the culprit. It actually hasn't been working with the stock email app either, in that I get no notifications of incoming mails (worked fine on Touchdown though). If I can't figure out how to get it working with the stock email client (and also disable the hover text to speech) I'll probably end up going with Touchdown by default.
 
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Notifier Pro seems to be the culprit. It actually hasn't been working with the stock email app either, in that I get no notifications of incoming mails (worked fine on Touchdown though). If I can't figure out how to get it working with the stock email client (and also disable the hover text to speech) I'll probably end up going with Touchdown by default.

Yeah, I use to use Notifier Pro too. It caused the lady to talk to me so I uninstalled it.
 
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