Computer talks to me if warning is left open too long

I'm playing a game and didn't notice a pop-up warning (system preferences). I assume after several minutes of staying open, my computer "reads" it aloud to me. I don't recall ever turning on any voice command thingies. Any ideas how to turn this off?
cmd-F5 (voiceover) was Off, I do know that much.
(Hmm, on an unrelated side-note, I just discovered F5 brings up a drop-down menu of word choices. Cool!)

System Preferences>Speech>Text to Speech and uncheck 'Announce when alerts are displayed'.

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