Turn on text captions for spoken dialog

Many programs use sound in animation and video, and others use sounds to indicate that activity is happening on your computer (such as when a document starts or finishes printing). Some of these programs provide text captions as rough equivalents for the audio information, like the closed captioning that accompanies your television programming. Using this option you can see the visual equivalents when sounds play (only available when media authors have provided this information).

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To open the Ease of Access Center, select:

Start.
Control Panel.
Ease of Access.
Ease of Access Center.

To open the Ease of Access Center, press:

Windows logo key [image: Windows logo key] +U.

Under Explore all settings, select:

Use text or visual alternatives for sounds.

Under Explore all settings, select:

Use text or visual alternatives for sounds by pressing TAB, then ENTER.

Under Use visual cues instead of sounds select:

Turn on text captions for spoken dialog (when available).
Select Save.

Under Use visual cues instead of sounds, select:

Turn on text captions for spoken dialog (when available) by pressing ALT+U.
Select Save by pressing ALT+S.

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Turn on text captions for spoken dialog

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