How to disable the Read Aloud feature?

There is no blue X in the top RH side of the screen--maybe you have one but no one else does!  Still MS has no sure way to stop the popup...

Just click on the blue X at the top RH side of the screen to switch off 'read aloud'

No need to be rude.

I actually didn't lose anything. When I am typing something lengthy online, I usually write it in WORD, then paste it into online comments, so if I hit a wrong key (of my first experience with Read Aloud) I can use PASTE to copy it back in. I lost nothing.

In Outlook mail, if the email doesn't get sent it goes into DRAFTS and stays there.

Even if I had been doing it without WORD, as I was, I only lost 4 sentences, which was no big deal to input again.

Duh....Yes you stopped "Read Aloud" but you also lost all your work.

I am thinking the non-turn-off did come in with an update. I was typing an online message on a company website and accidentally hit "Read Aloud". It wouldn't let me continue writing my message. Every time I tried to type, the Read Aloud" went back to the top of my message and started over! It then went down and started reading other items on the website page.

As my answer to most computer problems, I do a "Restart" or a "Shutdown" and then reboot. I worked my career at IBM and we said just hitting the Big Red Switch. It's also frustrating because I feel like I should be able to find a way to work around it.

Doing a Restart did stop it. May have been a fluke. But I shut down the website and shutdown the computer, restarted it, and Read Aloud was off.

Microsoft needs to get it off the COPY, CUT, PASTE pulldown. It's too easy to hit READ ALOUD there.

Thanks for your reply!