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Windows offers multiple ways to replace audio alerts with visual feedback, including classic Sound Sentry and ShowSounds options alongside modern Live captions and on-screen text captions. These tools help users who are deaf, hard of hearing, work in noisy environments, or prefer visual confirmation of system events. The guide covers how to enable and configure these features, their capabilities, compatibility, and trade-offs across different Windows versions.
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    Windows Visual Alerts and Live Captions: A Complete Accessibility Guide

    Windows has long offered ways to replace or augment audio alerts with visual feedback, but in the last several releases Microsoft has folded those decades-old accessibility primitives into a clearer, more capable set of tools: from the classic Sound Sentry / ShowSounds options to modern Live...
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