Does anyone have a guide on how to get TextAloud to work under Wine in Linux? There is apparently a forum topic on this but for some reason I am not authorized to view it:
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Problems with TextAloud 4 (and TA 3) in Linux using Wine
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Re: Problems with TextAloud 4 (and TA 3) in Linux using Wine
We've been cleaning up some very old posts. If you're seeing an authorization error it is because the old posts are still online, but have been moved to a private area.
You can use winetricks to do most of the work for getting TextAloud to work with Wine. For both TextAloud 3 and TextAloud 4, you set up a 32 bit windows environment, then use winetricks to set up Sapi5. With TextAloud 4, you also need to install the dot net framework, the 4.0 version works.
Here is how I configured here:
You can use winetricks to do most of the work for getting TextAloud to work with Wine. For both TextAloud 3 and TextAloud 4, you set up a 32 bit windows environment, then use winetricks to set up Sapi5. With TextAloud 4, you also need to install the dot net framework, the 4.0 version works.
Here is how I configured here:
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$ export WINEARCH=win32
$ export WINEPREFIX=~/win32
$ winecfg // this will create the ~/win32 directory and do some setup. Just close the dialog displayed
$ winetricks speechsdk // setup sapi5
$ winetricks dotnet40 // displays a lot of errors but the install works. Required for TextAloud 4 only
Then to install TextAloud:
$ wine taxxxx.exe // taxxxx.exe is the current TA4 or TA3 installer
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