How to stop Google from narrating?

[David Pesetsky]

You can say Hey Google read me the news and in fact it will, but when you close the app it doesn't stop narrating, ever. So I had to shut off the phone. How do you get Google to stop narrating and in fact other Audio Apps to just stop playing audio?

 

[David Pesetsky]

In other words, when I hit close all, it doesn't really close the apps, because they keep narrating audio.

 

[mikedt]

I would have thought something like "Hey Google, shut up" or "Hey Google, be quiet" would work.

 

[olbriar]

Not the handiest means but you can open your recent apps from the bottom nav bar and close all. That will actually close the app and stream.

 

[David Pesetsky]

If you mean the three vertical bars at the bottom left that brings up all of the icons of everything that's currently running and also the close all button I tried that and it dismisses the icons leaving nothing there but the audio still streams...

 

[mikedt]

If you mean the three vertical bars at the bottom left that brings up all of the icons of everything that's currently running and also the close all button I tried that and it dismisses the icons leaving nothing there but the audio still streams...

I've not used Google Assistant myself, so can't say for sure how it's supposed to work. But I was playing with my dad's Alexa, and that I could just say "Alexa, shut up", or "Alexa, be quiet“, and it would go silent. I thought Google would have been similar.

 

[puppykickr]

I've not used Google Assistant myself, so can't say for sure how it's supposed to work. But I was playing with my dad's Alexa, and that I could just say "Alexa, shut up", or "Alexa, be quiet“, and it would go silent. I thought Google would have been similar.

I think you actually have to program that into it.

Personally, I would want to swear at it.

 

[puppykickr]

On modern versions of Android, any user app that is running constantly almost always has a notification.

You can most often turn it off via the notification.

If these notifications annoy you as they do me, then you might have turned them off.

If you enable your System UI tuner, then you an adjust the le el of the notifications for each app.

That will enable you to get the notification off your notification bar but still have it when you pull the bar down.

To enable your System UI tuner (7.0+ only) pull down your quick settings tiles and then press and hold the settings icon.

After about 10 seconds, it will animate, and then you can let go.

Now go into your settings and scroll to near the bottom, looking for System UI Tuner.

Inside there you will find cool adjustments and the notification level adjustment settings.

 

[David Pesetsky]

While it was narrating I even screamed some commands like stop to it but it wasn't listening at all ...

 

[puppykickr]

While it was narrating I even screamed some commands like stop to it but it wasn't listening at all ...

You have to customize what you want it to respond to.

FWIW, before I gave up on Google entirely, I tried to set up Assistant multiple times.

No matter what I tried, I could never get it to do anything that I wanted.

It is still a wart on my device, often turning itself back on even after I have disabled it.

 

[Dannydet]

Be careful what you ask for (Google, that is...)