Stopping that woman

Lab KeyLab Essential
#1

Hi everybody,

A friend bought a keylab–essential-61, which came with a software bundle including an analog lab program it works BUT each time you select something on the keyboard, a woman voice tells you about it which soon becomes boring !

Is there a way to stop it ?

TIA.

Stan.

#2

Hi @stan_fr. Welcome to the community.

If you click the gearwheel icon at the top right of Analog Lab, then you open the right panel.
Under the Settings tab you find a “Enable Accessibility” switch. be sure it’s off.
It’s a function for sight impaled and it is using your computers settings and voice selection for this help tool.

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#3

Welcome to the forum Stan.

All I can suggest is a divorce…

But seriously, a little more info please. Is this “voiceover” only occurring when using Analog Lab? Is AL being used in a DAW or standalone and does it happen in both?. Is this a Windows or Mac based PC?

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#4

As @LBH states, that will stop the voiceover. However, I have this enabled by default it seems and do not get voiceovers. I suspect your friend has Accessibility features enabled elsewhere on a system wide level.

#5

Hi LBH and Funtmaster,

Many thanks for your help, I’ll check it with my friend as soon as she’ll be back from New Year vacation.

Divorce is not an option : I’m already divorced ! :smile:

Happy 2025 !

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#6

We’ve checked : it works flawlessly, and as a bonus the functions ans state of the various sliders and potentiometers are displayed when selecting the keylab–essential-61, under the MIDI tab !

Now, she “just” has to learn to play the piano wit the for dummies book…

Once again many thanks to you LBH and Funtmaster :clap: :clap: :clap:

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#7

hi There
Could you pin your answer to the start? I looked in the manual for how to turn off the voice and it’s nowhere to be found.

This is what’s in the Keylab MK3 Essentials manual.

“3.3.1.3. Text To Speech
When on, this makes Analog Lab V more accessible to persons with visual challenges.
With a MIDI controller connected and configured, Analog Lab V will verbally read what
is displayed on the controller’s screen and/or what parameter is being controlled when a
knob, slider, or button is moved. We cover the details of how to configure your controller for
text-to-speech are in the section on Accessibility [p.74].”
Gets U even more confused when you got to page 74

Arturia need to update the manual.

It shows a picture of a Text to Speech switch in the third position BELOW the Multicore switch, Huh??

I just picked up Pigments 6 & V 10 upgrade for $49. & $99. and now have over 20,000 presets in Analog V. Brave NEW World!

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