Computer won't stop talking to me!

Either I hit some sort of hot key or my computer is now possessed by a Speak and Spell. Everything I do is spoken by my computer. I tried going to the Speech section in the system pref's but that isn't helping. How do I turn this off?

Maybe VoiceOver is on ("Seeing" tab of "Universal Access" system preference).

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