She also said that she was concerned that she may not be hired by future clients because her voice was already 'branded' through association with TikTok. Standing previously told Insider that some of the content associated with the feature goes against her personal brand. 'As far as I'm concerned, TikTok is not my client, and so how they got this audio is unknown,' Standing told Insider. She said that she was not aware that the audio she recorded would be used for any purpose other than translation, and that it was not a part of the job agreement.

Standing told Insider that she recognized herself as the voice of the text-to-speech function after family and friends began to send her TikTok videos, saying that she was able to identify the voice-acting job that the audio was from based on its tonality and pitch. It also states that 'upon information and belief, a company from China contracted with the Institute of Acoustics,' and claims that TikTok used Standing's work without her permission. The lawsuit claims that Standing was hired by an 'Institute of Acoustics' to 'perform voice work purportedly for Chinese translations,' claiming that the Institute is a Scotland-based company. It often indicates a user profile.Įarlier this month professional voice actor Beverly Standing sued TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, saying her voice was used in the app's text-to-speech feature without her permission. This things are very hard to write into a program because they are much more subtle than the pitch/harmonic modulations that make up our syllable sounds. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. In natural speech, there are many subtle inflections, pauses, and amplitude modulations that are used to convey emotion and properly give emphasis to the right parts of a sentence.

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