InstallingTextAloud - AlexisWiki

Introduction

This page describes how AlexisHuxley installed TextAloud under Wine. Order was very important!

Procedure

Run:
```
winecfg 
```
and set the default OS to 'Windows ME'.

Run:

msiexec /i Microsoft-English-TTS-51.msi

Run:
```
wine speakoniasetup-1.0.exe 
```
and install into C:\Program Files\TextAloud\speakonia
Run:
```
wine Text_Aloud_2195.exe 
```
and install into C:\Program Files\TextAloud\TextAloud
Run:
```
wine Kate3.exe 
```
and install into C:\Program Files\TextAloud\Kate
Run:
```
wine Paul3.exe 
```
and install into C:\Program Files\TextAloud\Paul
Run:
```
wine Audrey16bu.exe 
```
and install into C:\Program Files\TextAloud\ATTNatural
Run:
```
wine Crystal16dr.exe 
```
and install into C:\Program Files\TextAloud\ATTNatural
Run:
```
wine Mike16ni.exe 
```
and install into C:\Program Files\TextAloud\ATTNatural
Store this icon in a suitable place (e.g. ~/.wine/Program Files/TextAloud/TextAloud

I prefer to move stuff out of ~/.wine/Program Files and into ~/opt/Windows, so run:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/
mv Microsoft-English-TTS-51 TextAloud ~/opt/Windows/
ln -s ../../../opt/Windows/Microsoft-English-TTS-51
ln -s ../../../opt/Windows/TextAloud

Set up a menu item or alias or wrapper script to run:
```
sh -c 'wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/TextAloud/TextAloud/TextAloudMP3' 
```
(Use of sh -c '...' will ensure tilde and backslash expansion is handled correctly.)
Run TextAloud from the the just-added menu item and:
1. enter the registration code of your purchase
2. disable tips at startup
3. verify that all expected voices are present on the pull-down menu
4. blank the text
5. from the 'Options' menu, select 'TextAloud Options', on the 'Article Options' tab, unset 'Generate default article titles'
6. from the 'Options' menu, select 'TextAloud Options', on the 'Miscellaneous' tab, set the default voice to 'Neospeech Kate 16k' and disable the showing of the splash screen at startup
7. from the 'Options' menu, select 'Voices and File Options', on the 'File Options' tab, set 'Audio File Format' to 'MP3' and set 'Bit / Sample Rate' to '112 kbs 44.10 kHz Mono', set 'Write File Speed' to '150x' (the maximum), set 'Audio Output Directory' to 'H:\'
8. quit out of TextAloud and when prompted if you want to fill in the survey, select 'Never'.
Rerun TextAloud and verify that the correct default voice is shown.
Close TextAloud and when prompted whether to close to system tray or close properly, select to close properly and not to be prompted about this again.

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