Mac stuck

Hey, I was using photoshop illustrator and some other programs, I started twitter for mac (newest version from the app store) and clicked speak tweet or something like that. He started talking and stopped when there was a link and now he doesn't respond to anything. I didn't save my photoshop file so I really don't want to shut it down, please help me!

I restarted my macbook, and at startup it said: helvetica.dfont is ....

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