![]() “I thought ‘this is wild, I’m the voice of TikTok’. ![]() “I was dumbfounded when I first found out,” said Ms Standing. ![]() She is now suing TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, in a US court, and seeking damages. Since launching in late 2020, TikTok’s text-to-speech feature has become one of its most viral features, giving the effect of having a virtual assistant like Siri narrating a user’s videos.īut Ms Standing, whose recordings made for a different company in 2018 were used to build the feature, says she never gave permission for her voice to be used. ![]() Ms Standing, a professional voice actor in Ontario, Canada, is better known as the “voice of TikTok”, the computer generated speech that narrates thousands of videos on the app. Her voice is instantly recognisable to millions of TikTok users, but until recently, Beverly Standing had no idea she was part of the app. ![]()
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