How to turn off "Read Out Loud Controller Window" on MacBook running macOS Monterey.

Looks like some kind of Playback control.

Ahhh, here it is...

Best Text-to-Speech Tool for macOS

Spoken Content

Every Apple device comes with Spoken Content, a feature that uses Siri's high-quality voices to read text out loud. On a Mac, you can enable the feature by heading to System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content and checking the Speak Selection option, which allows you to trigger the current document or selected text in any application using a keyboard shortcut (Option-Esc). As the tool reads the text, it highlights the corresponding words on the page in most applications, allowing you to read along. On-screen buttons give you control to speed up, slow down, pause, and so forth. It's the fastest way to listen to text I found on any platform.

Thank you for your reply, BDAqua, was wondering where to locate and identify that particular control.

And hello to ayedh!

I notice by clicking the (i) button near the turn on / turn off button, one can take charge of if, or when, the controls appear. Choosing "Automatically" controls will only appear if you are actually using the feature.

Great, 1st time ever I used TinyEye to search for that graphiv!

Aha! How useful ... thank you for sharing, BDAqua :-)

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