Dark gray bar at top of screen that says "Type to" on my MacBook Pro

bobbumek wrote:

Dark gray bar at top of my screen that says Type to appeared on my MacBook Pro last night. I can not figure out how to get rid of it, it blocks files on desktop. if you type into it it just repeats back what you typed

A screen shot would help exemplify what it is you are seeing...

Not heard of this— sounds like some Accessibility feature(?)

>System Settings>Accessibility

Have you shut down and restarted the machine.?

A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test.

What I actually see is a window that says "Type to Speak"

this was not clear from your post.

See if this is it your >System Settings:

that was easy! thanks a lot!