Spacebar doesn't work?

For some reason I am unable to use the spacebar on my Mac. I have looke at all of the VoiceOver options, and i don't see anything on the spacebar. Whenever I press the spacebar, it just makes a invalid noise. Both in Text Edit and in mail my workds are combined.
What's wrong with my spacebar?

Open the Speech pane of System Preferences and check whether either the listening key or the speech key has become set to that keystroke; if so, change the setting.
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