diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 496e772..229c438 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "tts"
-version = "0.17.0"
+version = "0.17.1"
 authors = ["Nolan Darilek <nolan@thewordnerd.info>"]
 repository = "https://github.com/ndarilek/tts-rs"
 description = "High-level Text-To-Speech (TTS) interface"
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ thiserror = "1"
 env_logger = "0.8"
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
-tolk = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+tolk = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 windows = "0.9"
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.build-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/backends/tolk.rs b/src/backends/tolk.rs
index ae16e4f..9b93a5e 100644
--- a/src/backends/tolk.rs
+++ b/src/backends/tolk.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ impl Tolk {
     pub(crate) fn new() -> Option<Self> {
         info!("Initializing Tolk backend");
         let tolk = TolkPtr::new();
-        if tolk.detect_screen_reader().is_some() {
+        if tolk::Tolk::detect_screen_reader().is_some() {
             Some(Tolk(tolk))
         } else {
             None
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 9b742a7..6c0b5f8 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -537,8 +537,7 @@ impl Tts {
         {
             #[cfg(feature = "tolk")]
             {
-                let tolk = tolk::Tolk::new();
-                return tolk.detect_screen_reader().is_some();
+                return tolk::Tolk::detect_screen_reader().is_some();
             }
             #[cfg(not(feature = "tolk"))]
             return false;