MacBook Talking to me????

My computer started talking the other day. I dont know what I might have done to get it to do this but someone please help me and explain how I can get it stop.. its quite annoying... Thanks, B

Funny, because I accidently turned on the speech mode on my macbook today. I was trying to adjust the volume using the F4 and F5 keys, but I must have used the "control" or "command" key instead of the "fn" key. I'm pretty sure that's how I activated it. Finally figured out how to turn it off... same solution as offered above.

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