https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38927
Bug ID: 38927 Summary: IVONA Voices (SAPI TTS): Trial period (30 days) prematurely expires as soon as wineserver session ends Product: Wine Version: 1.7.44 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wineserver Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: ebemacc+bugreport@gmail.com Distribution: ---
How to reproduce:
1. Set OS version to Windows 2000 in order to allow installation of SAPI 5.1 redistributable. 2. Install any IVONA voice, but do not close installation wizard once completed in order to keep wineserver session alive: http://download.ivona.com/pub/Install/Ivona_Voice_1.6_Emma_22kHz.dat 3. Install IVONA Control Center: http://download.ivona.com/pub/Install/Ivona_ControlCenter_inst.dat 4. Control Center should show installed voice with a remaining trial period of 29 days. 5. Close all Windows programs and wait for wineserver session to end. 6. Run Control Center. 7. Control Center should show trial period to be prematurely expired.
(Note: This problem is not confined to the Control Center; IVONA voices will also refuse to load in any other setting.)
Thank you.