Activating Read Out Loud degraded text in pdf

When I activated Read Out Loud in a pdf, the text became degraded - as though it were made up of tiny dots. Deactivating Read Out Loud did not help. Now every pdf I open in Adobe Reader X has that same degraded text. How can I get my normal looking text back?

Is there real text within the tagged area that will not read-aloud?
Jon

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