Help Phone speaks each letter as I type

[Sir Dancelot]

Recently, my phone started speaking each letter as I type. Very annoying.

I've looked through the keyboard and accessibility settings and haven't found anywhere to turn that off.

My only workaround is to plug something into the headphone jack.

Phone is LG-P769, Android 4.1.2

 

[girolez]

Hi

Is it not accessability-talkback ?

Roger

 

[Sir Dancelot]

Hi

Is it not accessability-talkback ?

Roger

That is and has been Off.

 

[girolez]

Hi again

In tailback settings there is one which does exactly what you describe. I would try enabling tailback. Go into its settings and set always speak key entry to "never" (the default is always)and turn it off again. Your phone seems to think it is on.

You could try disabling talkback in the app manager

Roger

 

[John Bean]

I would try enabling tailback. Go into its songs ...

It sings the keypresses? Wow ;-)

 

[girolez]

Hah that pesky predictive text!

 

[Sir Dancelot]

Hi again

In tailback settings there is one which does exactly what you describe. I would try enabling tailback. Go into its settings and set always speak key entry to "never" (the default is always)and turn it off again. Your phone seems to think it is on.

You could try disabling talkback in the app manager

Roger

Disabling talkback is the only thing that's worked. Enabling it, it speaks the key entries. Disabling it, it doesn't speak key entries.

(Is "tailback" a [N. American] football position?)

 

[girolez]

Hi

Another typo! Im British living in France. No idea what tailback is!

 

[John Bean]

Isn't a "tailback" a queue of slow moving or stopped traffic?

Songs from the phone while sitting in a traffic jam. Nice

 

[girolez]

I remember those! They happen in the UK!

 

[mikedt]

I like it when students talkback, it shows they're interested in the lesson.

 

[MoodyBlues]

Hi there, Sir Dancelot, and welcome to Android Forums.

I've moved this thread to the LG Optimus L9 (P769) board so other owners of the device will be more likely to see it.

 

[rhino889a]

Thanks for the tip
i never thought i needed this but now i am anoying everybody close to me at Starbucks

 

[PlayThatMusic]

Recently, my phone started speaking each letter as I type. Very annoying.
I've looked through the keyboard and accessibility settings and haven't found anywhere to turn that off.
My only workaround is to plug something into the headphone jack.
Phone is LG-P769, Android 4.1.2

I have an LG Optimus F3 phone that I'm setting up for my child. I installed both the "Norton Family" and "Norton App Lock" apps on the phone. Both of these apps require you to turn on Accessibility for them to work properly. But after turning on Accessibility for either or both of those Norton apps, even though the TalkBack app had Accessibility turned off, the phone would speak the letters/buttons on the phone's keyboard when I pressed them.

The only way I was able to figure out how to fix this problem was to completely Disable the TalkBack app:

1) Go to Settings > Apps.
2) Swipe the top bar to move from Downloaded to Running and then to All.
3) Scroll down to the TalkBack app.
4) Tap the TalkBack App.
5) Tap the Uninstall Updates button and following the prompts.
6) When the updates have finished uninstalling, tap the TalkBack app again.
7) Tap the Disable button and follow the prompts.

After the BackTalk app was completely disabled, even though both Norton apps still had Accessibility enabled, the phone stopped speaking the keyboard letters/buttons when pressed.