http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16248
Summary: Dragon Naturally Speaking 7: Regression Product: Wine Version: 1.1.9 Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P3 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: mdirk@sympatico.ca
Even though I had bought only "Dragon Naturally Speaking 7: Essentials", this version used to work fine under Wine 1.1.7 . Thus, I had assumed to expect the behavior to have been improved enough for the Essentials Edition to work from now on.
But after upgrading Wine to version 1.1.9, a Regression took place. Still installed properly, and having a user profile for me, DNS 7 no longer works.
The behavior is that after launching, the message appears "Initializing Dictation". But this message stays, which should get replaced by something else. For a fraction of a second, the toolbar menus become fully colored, which would indicate that the program is ready for use. But next, the toolbar becomes grayed again, and does not respond to input of any kind. The icon indicating whether the microphone is switched on or not, stays unfilled. And trying to position the mouse cursor over the toolbar, causes the Linux cursor to disappear, for which reason the menus can also not be clicked on. Keyboard shortcuts don't work. The system tray icon also stays unreachable by the mouse, only displaying a trivial balloon but no menu. The toolbar fails to reposition itself as it did before, onto any available window awaiting a dictation.
And after about a minute, the application dies.
Trying to re-establish an OSS sound driver audio profile succeeds with the message that "The sound quality is unacceptable." But then trying to establish an ALSA sound driver audio profile causes a crash before the new profile gets saved. In this mode, the main toolbar has already gone into its unresponsive mode, but control over the app's events is taken care of successfully by more normal-looking windows.