http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9618
Summary: Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 takes many minutes to start up Product: Wine Version: CVS/GIT Platform: Other URL: http://nuance.com OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
As described in the workaround for bug 9401, Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 takes two to six minutes to start Dragonpad, and another two to four minutes to actually start responding to speech.
To repeat: winetricks fakeie6 install DNS 7 Start DNS 7 and run through training (using keyboard to work around bug 9399 ) Work around bug 9401 by leaving both fatal dialogs open and ignoring them When training complete, mouse over microphone on system menu bar and wait for tooltip to change to "turn microphone on" from "initializing" Right click on microphone icon and choose tools / dragonpad Wait five minutes for dragonpad to start Click on microphone icon to turn microphone on Keep trying to say something into microphone, observe that it ignores you for many minutes but then becomes normally responsive. (The small popup that shows you what it thinks you just said shows up for me at the lower right corner of the screen.)