Voice Over commentating...

Messing around yesterday and I have somehow turned on some commentator voiceover for almost everything I do. It is quite annoying, can anyone tell me how to turn it off... I have looked around and tried voice over in spotlight but to no avail.

System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing.
Right there, marked in huge letters is a button to turn off Voice Over.

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