diff --git a/src/Audio/AudioOutput.cc b/src/Audio/AudioOutput.cc
index 6a9e9411ead75b36809ff536b0cd2231dc269f8c..cb04eb60876d8aa289fe7b43fa1324179075b996 100644
--- a/src/Audio/AudioOutput.cc
+++ b/src/Audio/AudioOutput.cc
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 
 AudioOutput::AudioOutput(QGCApplication* app, QGCToolbox* toolbox)
     : QGCTool(app, toolbox)
+    , _tts(new QTextToSpeech(this))
 {
-    _tts = new QTextToSpeech(this);
     connect(_tts, &QTextToSpeech::stateChanged, this, &AudioOutput::_stateChanged);
 }