Speech synthesis service can't open on install of Maverick

Hi.
My title says it all. I had the Apple Store folks ugrade my OS to 10.9.5. today from 10.6.8. I've sorted most things out but did get one message "Speech Synthesis Service App could not be openened because it is damaged or incomplete". Sure enough I can't highlight text and instruct the computer to read it - a service I've valued greatly. I go to "Sytstem Preferences/Dictation & Speech/Text to Speech" and all seems set as it was before the upgrade.
What can I do to fix this problem?
Thanks.
John

Thanks for the ideas. I must have done something, because in spite of that message and the problems I was having (hitting the key combination that was suppose to activate the text reading was resulting in the whole screen collapsing into the bottom right corner), in spite of all this, the speech program suddenly began to work when I tried it with a piece of e-mail text. Since then it works everywhere and that message has never reappeared. A mystery!

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