Standing herself had only realized after friends and family members shared multiple videos with her. Not long after it was revealed that the recordings were being used without permission leaving the leaders of TikTok in some pretty deep doo doo. TikTok had supposedly used the translations as the hero voice of their ‘text-to-speech’ feature released in late 2020. The job required Standing to record around 10,000 sentences to be used mainly for translation purposes. So you can imagine it was quite a shock when Standing heard her voice coming from a friend's phone with what was meant to be a seemingly harmless TikTok video.Ĭontroversy: The suing scandal over voice useĪccording to records, TikTok had used voice snippets from a voiceover gig that Standing had done for the Chinese Institute of Acoustics. The supposed voice recordings were meant to be used for translations. While it appeared to be going smoothly for Standing, in early 2021 she filed a lawsuit against the parent company of TikTok (ByteDance) for using her voice without her permission.

Mainly on TV commercials and infomercials with big clients including the likes of Disney, Honda, and Fage. Standing has a history as a popular voice over artist working within Canada and the US. The mystery woman behind TikTok’s voiceovers is Canadian voice actress Beverly Standing. This is the story of the Canadian Woman who Sued TikTok for using her voice… The story of a woman who got sold-short by TikTok- Currently the fastest growing social media platform to date. Now this might just be the craziest story you’ve ever heard.

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