Standing said she recognised her voice after people began sending her TikTok videos. However, earlier in May, professional voice actor Beverly Standing sued ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, because her voice was used in the app's text-to-speech feature without her permission.Īccording to Insider's report, the lawsuit claims that Standing was hired by an 'Institute of Acoustics' to 'perform voice work purportedly for Chinese translations'. The voice has now changed in North America, but TikTok has not yet made any comment about the new voice or why it has been updated. The Text-To-Speech voices vary by country and region (in the UK, for example, it's a male voice). Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, did TikTok change the Text-To-Speech voice? Why did TikTok changes the Text-To-Speech voice?
