Free NaturalReader 9.0 text-to-speech software won't work.

[MIJ-VI]

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the 64 bit version of Edubuntu 10.04 LTS with WINE 1.1.42 configured for Windows 2000 as per the tip from this now out of date Ubuntu Forums thread: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

[James McKenzie]

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

[madewokherd]

On Linux, you'll want something that uses AT-SPI, which most modern
Linux GUI applications support.

Orca seems to be the common one for GNOME, at least:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28as ... hnology%29

I haven't tried Orca so I can't say how well it works.

Unfortunately, Wine does not currently bridge any Assistive Technology
APIs in either direction. That means Windows applications running in
Wine will not work with Orca, and native Linux applications will not
work with a Windows screen reader. I'm not aware of any technical
reason why we couldn't do this, there just hasn't been a demand or
drive for it.

[MIJ-VI]

Hi James. Hi madewokherd.

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

John