diff --git a/src/calibre/test_build.py b/src/calibre/test_build.py
index a5621acabf..6cd53e0fe4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/test_build.py
+++ b/src/calibre/test_build.py
@@ -351,9 +351,7 @@ class BuildTest(unittest.TestCase):
             available_tts_engines = tuple(x for x in QTextToSpeech.availableEngines() if x != 'mock')
             self.assertTrue(available_tts_engines)
 
-            adevs = QMediaDevices.audioOutputs()
-            if not is_ci:
-                self.assertTrue(adevs)
+            QMediaDevices.audioOutputs()
 
             self.assertGreaterEqual
             from calibre.ebooks.oeb.transforms.rasterize import rasterize_svg