Hey Trahern. Unfortunately this is a bug in Lion and Growl that hasn't been resolved yet. However I found out that if you press the control key twice while Voice Over is speaking, the problem fixes itself temporarily. I've put this bug into Apple Accessibility and suggest you do the same.
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