Application Details:
| Version: | 12 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.scansoft.com/natura... |
| Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.9.12 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Training new user
Interactive turorial.
What does not
Starting the program after training new user; it crashes at loading dragonbar
Workarounds
What was not tested
Core functionality of application.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
To install the application I had to do winetricks dotnet45. During installation various errors occured. Program crashes right after training new user. Definitely not ready to use in Linux.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 21 2016 | 1.9.12 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Current | Fedora 23 x86_64 | Jan 25 2016 | 1.9.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | NSLW | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 07 2015 | 1.7.44 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 08 2015 | 1.7.38 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Wayno | |
| Show | Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 20 2013 | 1.7.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Susan Cragin |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
For all installations, it's a good idea to set the Windows version to Windows 8.
Set winetricks fontfix.
For 64-bit users:
Currently NatSpeak installs flawlessly in wine-1.7.4 and runs in any wine version up to wine-1.7.7. It installs flawlessly in 1.7.7 but then does not run. ??
As of wine 3.6(staging), and possibly earlier, NatSpeak 12.5 installs and runs under a 64-bit wineprefix.
I installed it on 28-Apr-2018 and the only special concession I made to the wineprefix was to uninstall mono. Installing dotnet 40 with winetricks also works. Both optiions tell the program that an inadequate version of net is installed, and prompt the program to install its own.
After the installation, it says you have to reboot. I kill wineserver at the terminal and then start the installation process over. It does, bypassing the net installation.
All in all, NatSpeak works wonderfully now, and version 12.5 is very accurate and the latest low-end (and cheap) version to work well.
