[Bug 23339] Vocaboly 3.0 complains about "Speech engine not installed" on startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23339

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                URL|http://vocabolycom          |http://www.vocaboly.com/dow
                   |                            |nload/VocabolySetup.exe
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
            Version|unspecified                 |1.2-rc4
            Summary|Vocaboly.exe does not run   |Vocaboly 3.0 complains
                   |                            |about "Speech engine not
                   |                            |installed" on startup

--- Comment #4 from Anastasius Focht  2011-07-19 02:31:26 CDT ---
Hello,

the app needs 'winetricks vcrun2005' due to missing VC++ 2005 manifests from
WinSxS.

At startup the app displays a message box "Speech engine not installed" and
provides a download link.
Clicking the link lands on: http://www.vocaboly.com/download.php
There is no SAPI download nor link to MS, go figure ...

This site gives overview about different versions shipped with Windows:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Microsoft_Speech_API

Various redistributables versions can be downloaded from MS (part of SDKs),
example:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=10121

SpeechSDK51MSM.exe is the one needed for redist Speech API/engines (merge
module).

As an interim solution, a winetricks recipe could be created (like VC++
redist).

IMHO implementing this is currently out of Wine's scope.
Providing stubs for all the APIs won't do any good to apps that require a
functional speech engine.

$ sha1sum VocabolySetup.exe
0fe5322e4aa0093964cf0947a48f0dfedc198168  VocabolySetup.exe

$ wine --version
wine-1.3.24-216-gd385675

Regards