You can turn off Discord’s message-reading behavior by disabling Text to Speech and checking any system narrator setting, since Discord itself doesn’t usually have a separate “message reader” switch.

Discord settings

  1. Open User Settings.
  2. Go to Accessibility.
  3. Turn off Screen Reader Support if it’s on.
  4. Go to Text & Images or the Text to Speech area.
  5. Set TTS playback to Never or switch off Allow playback and usage of /tts command.

If it still reads messages

  • Check your device’s built-in narrator or screen reader, such as Windows Narrator, VoiceOver, or TalkBack, and turn that off too.
  • Restart Discord after changing the setting so it fully applies.
  • If the problem continues, sign out and back in, or clear the app cache.

Message requests

If you meant message requests instead of message reading, that’s a different setting: go to Privacy & Safety and disable Allow DMs from server members or related message request options.

In short, the fix is usually Accessibility + Text to Speech + system narrator , not one single “message reader” toggle.