From e8e95f888d1b99022f4d12bcb1b96629f82ae6c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:14:34 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/utils/windows/winspeech.cpp | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/windows/winspeech.cpp b/src/calibre/utils/windows/winspeech.cpp
index 1174fde0fe..732408f452 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/windows/winspeech.cpp
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/windows/winspeech.cpp
@@ -114,8 +114,11 @@ Synthesizer_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) { INITIALIZE
 static void
 Synthesizer_dealloc(Synthesizer *self_) {
     synthesizer_weakrefs.unregister_ref(self_, [](Synthesizer *self) {
-        self->synth = SpeechSynthesizer{nullptr};
-        self->player = MediaPlayer{nullptr};
+        try {
+            self->~Synthesizer();
+        } catch (...) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "Unhandled exception during Synthesizer object destruction, ignored.\n");
+        }
         Py_TYPE(self)->tp_free((PyObject*)self);
         CoUninitialize();
     });