macOS Sierra - shortcut keyboard speech

Does anyone have a problem with the keyboard shortcut for speech synthesis since the update for Sierra? I can highlight text and use the mouse to right click, and select 'Speech' and then 'start talking', but the keyboard shortcut doesn't do anything.

Thanks for any help. Maybe it's a known issue, and Apple will release a fix.

It works for me.  Access your users/home/Library/Preferences folder and move these two files on the desktop:

com Apple.Speech.Voice.prefs.plist

com Apple.Speech.Synthesis.General.prefs.plist

Restart and go to system/accessibility/speech preferences window and deliver it to the voice and the speed of your choice.  Then try again.

If only it solves, you can delete the two files from the desktop.

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