wine users - Jun 2010 - Free NaturalReader 9.0 text-to-speech software won't work.

Free NaturalReader 9.0...

http://www.naturalreaders.com/

...will read highlighted text in WINE's Notepad but won't read
highlighted text in any 64 bit or 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 applications.

When said text is selected and NaturalReader's play button is clicked, the
text is de-selected and NR gives a 'no text selected' error message.

I'm using the 64 bit version of Edubuntu 10.04 LTS with WINE 1.1.42
configured for Windows 2000 as per the tip from this now out of date Ubuntu
Forums thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=790397

Has anyone here gotten NaturalReader to work properly in WINE?

Thank you.

John

MIJ-VI wrote:
> Free NaturalReader 9.0...
>
> http://www.naturalreaders.com/
>
> ...will read highlighted text in WINE's Notepad but won't read
highlighted text in any 64 bit or 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 applications.
>   
This is due to the fact that there is no data connection between Wine 
and Linux native applications :(

You should find a Linux native screen reader.  I  don't know of any, but 
Google is your friend in this case (and maybe someone else will give the 
name of a few.)

James McKenzie

Hi James. Hi madewokherd.

Thank you both for your prompt and informative responses. You've been most
helpful.

John