![]() © Provided by The Telegraphīeverly Standing said she had not been told her voice would be used on the app - Bev Standing She said she had been paid a “decent amount” for the work, but that there had been no mention that it might be sold on or licensed. She said she had recorded around 10,000 sentences for what she was told was a language translation service. ![]() Ms Standing said she had made the voice recordings for the Chinese Institute of Acoustics, a state-backed research organisation, via a representative in Edinburgh. But that’s not right, I’m not getting paid for it.” “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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