[Bug 19353] New: The Talking Moose: No audio, no animation, always crashes

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19353

Summary: The Talking Moose: No audio, no animation, always
                    crashes
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.23
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.halls.md/moose/index.htm
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=22416)
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Console error output for Talking Moose program

When it functions properly on a Windows machine, the Talking Moose application
is a desktop toy (based on an app for the old Macintosh Plus from the 80's) in
which an animated talking moose avatar periodically pops up in the upper-right
corner of the screen to offer witty remarks, puns, or mild insults. (The phrase
database can be modified and augmented.) The moose also comments on various
system activities, like the opening and closing of programs. There's also a
system tray icon, and right-clicking offers a host of other options, as well as
a control panel to control the moose's behavior.

I can't get the application to work in wine. (

I can successfully install the application, and it starts up and creates a
system tray icon without crashing.

But there's no animation or sound or talking, the moose avatar displays the
text "Voice Error: I'm Sick", and clicking on the moose avatar itself or
right-clicking on the system tray icon and trying to open the control panel
causes an immediate crash of the program, generally with an error box saying
"Run-time error '-2147200966 (8004503a)': Automation error."

Solving this problem might be helpful more generally, because it might shed
some more light on the Microsoft text-to-speech system in the process.

I've tested the program on clean wineprefix, with/without vbrun, with/without
native ole. I also tried installing Microsoft Text-to-Speech (see, for example,
http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm), but none of this changed the application's
behavior in any way.

Please see the attached console error output.

Thanks!