
The lawsuit claims 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. 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. Descripts Overdub lets you create a text-to-speech model of your voice or select one from our ultra-realistic. The Text-To-Speech voices vary by country and region (in the UK, for example, it's a male voice). Ultra-realistic voice cloning with Overdub. Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, did TikTok change the Text-To-Speech voice?

and theres no way of changing your devices locale on the app. Full stops add a moderate pause to your text to speech. TikTok (just record a blank video, type in text after recording, then hold the text and tap text-to-speech and then use the Jessie voice by default, to anyone who lives outside the US, theyre only left with one TTS option or other voices exclusive to that country. Why did TikTok changes the Text-To-Speech voice? Unlock AI text to speechs full potential and produce natural sounding voiceover for your videos by adjusting the pace and intonation of your narration.
