Use text or visual alternatives to sounds

Windows provides settings for using visual cues to replace sounds in many programs.

You can adjust these settings on the Use text or visual alternatives for sounds page in the Ease of Access Center.
1. Click to open Ease of Access Center.
2. Select the options that you want to use:
   • Turn on visual notifications for sounds. This option sets sound notifications to run when you log on to Windows. Sound notifications replace system sounds with visual cues, such as a flash on the screen, so that system alerts are noticeable even when they're not heard. You can also choose how you want sound notifications to warn you.
   • Turn on text captions for spoken dialog. This option causes Windows to display text captions in place of sounds to indicate that activity is happening on your computer (for example, when a document starts or finishes printing).