From 3121517b510598b233983d45bf4dacb619c06ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 21:18:26 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Allow switching back to SAPI speech client via a "plugin
 tweak"

---
 src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py
index deba410c80..f72d6ace18 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/implementation.py
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 from calibre.constants import iswindows, ismacos
 
 if iswindows:
-    from .windows import Client
+    from calibre.utils.config_base import tweaks
+    if tweaks.get('prefer_winsapi'):
+        from .windows_sapi import Client
+    else:
+        from .windows import Client
 elif ismacos:
     from .macos import Client
 else: