Linux/Windows app connection, how?

[Joshua Scholar]

I really want to have some way to communicate between a Linux program and 
a Windows program running under WINE.  The connection doesn't need to be 
high speed, a stream is fine - I'm just sending some unicode text.  I'm 
writing both programs myself, so I can implement this in the easiest way, 
though if there was some way to create and call a Windows COM object from 
Linux, that would be the most direct solution...

But reading what I can about WINE, I'm guessing that the only easy thing 
to do is to write a Windows server application with winegcc and either 
connect to it through a socket - or to have it spawn a Linux application 
that it has a stream to.  But I need some sample code to know how to do 
this, since I don't have too much time to experiment.

Just to make it clear why I'm doing this - I have some wonderful TTS 
voices (Neospeech's SAPI5 Japanese voices) installed in WINE and I need 
to be able to invoke them from a Linux program.

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

Joshua Scholar