Double tap and voice over, how do I disable?

I have to hold my finger on whatever I want to use to "highlight" it and then double tap it to get it to open. When this happened it also won't allow me to scroll down or up any more. This also applies to my kindle app. I can't turn the pages anymore.
As if this weren't frustrating enough a day later Siri now tells me EVERYTHING that comes up on the screen like I'm a blind person. How the **** do I get these things off? I tried asking Siri a bunch of different ways to disable but I don't know the correct wording.

You turned VoiceOver on.
Settings> General> Accessibility> turn VoiceOver Off.

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Caolei,
I don't know if you'll ever see this, but thank you! I hope this helps somebody else down the line, too.
re. "I can use double tap and move with one finger to select text if the cursor is between text."
I've been trying to figure out how to select text with tapping and without clicking.
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Clicking with the built-in trackpad on my MacBook Pro w/ Retina or Magic Mouse just takes too much pressure for an old-time touch typist like me.
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The whole mystique of Mac / Apple being intuitive and user-friendly seems to be one of the greatest marketing coups / unbelievable con jobs of the last century.
I'm actually somewhat qualified to express an opinion as a software engineer with a degree in Computer Science and programming and user interface design experience in Windows, UNIX, web, Android and other systems, and now OS X and iOS. I could go on and on and on but I won't other to say that I still find Macs buggy and hard to use. I'm now finding that my new iPhone 5 is just as big of a pain (i.e. big thumbs missing landscape keyboard in Contacts.) Of course, I like flexibility and options and custom workflows and more than one way to do things and simply being able to do things at all, so I'm also actually somewhat biased. Sorry for the rant...
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I am just an amateur - a text writer who was forced by ruthless customers to not just produce manuscripts, but also video tutorials, w/out knowing how to, but wishing not to sound as "garage" and "panting" as many others on YouTube (apart from "verbose"). So for my "productions", i write, speak and edit all in one.
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Previously you also said that breathing is natural and should stay in the audio. I don't want to fully keep the breathing in – that might be ok for some emotional music or movie, but not for tutorials. But i'd prefer to lower rather than fully suppress breaths; that's why i asked for automatic "fade out – almost silence – fade in". I can do this by selecting three different bits of audio and then select three different commands (now by keyboard shortcuts). But it's too much clicking and i might simply glue silence over most of the exhaust sound.
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I will print your instructions for microphone positioning and try to follow them exactly next time. But i wasn't much off anyway.
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