TikTok has more than 100 million users in the US alone, with millions more worldwide. The actor said she had been paid a “decent amount” for the job, but stressed that there had been no mention of the clips being resold or licensed, The Telegraph reports. She recorded around 10,000 sentences for what she was told was a language translation service for the state-backed research organisation. Standing said voice recordings she made for the Chinese Institute of Acoustics in 2018 had been used to build the feature. One McDonald’s worker used her voice while claiming to serve a half-eaten burger One of her main issues with the text-to-speech feature is that it allows the computer simulation of her voice to utter any obscene phrase a TikTok user chooses to type. She is now suing the app’s parent company, ByteDance, in a New York court, and seeking damages for “the emotional distress of having her likeness exploited without consent loss of the ability to control the dissemination of her likeness and loss of the ability to control the association of her likeness.” This is my product, and you’re using it without permission.” “And I think it’s important for the voiceover industry, to say to the companies out there, they can’t do this. “No matter what I do, I believe this is going to affect my business,” she said. Since then, she has grown concerned that her link to the platform could affect her career providing voiceovers for training videos, adverts and narration. She only found out about her voice becoming a viral addition to the app when a friend sent her a video featuring the technology, the paper reports. All the things which did better than Laurence Fox’s London mayoral campaign.Father sparks debate over reaction to having a girl in viral gender reveal TikTok video.Woman ‘shaves’ legs with sandpaper in viral TikTok and it’s blowing people’s minds.Homeowner goes viral on TikTok after finding ‘secret passageway’ in 148-year-old house.Everyone’s talking about Kim Kardashian’s toes again.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,” she told The Telegraph. However, Standing, a professional voice actor from Ontario, Canada, says she never gave permission for her voice to be used. Since launching late last year, the text-to-speech feature has become one of TikTok’s most popular features, enabling users to offer a running commentary on their clips without having to do the voiceover themselves. A woman whose computerised tones are instantly recognisable to millions of TikTokers is not happy to be part of the app.īeverly Standing is the voice behind the computer generated speech that narrates countless videos on the platform but, until recently, she had no idea she was being used.
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