Problems with TextAloud 4 (and TA 3) in Linux using Wine

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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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To the forum owners:
Surely there is no reason to keep this topic "secret"???

[Jim Bretti]

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:

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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