Is that really a singer you re listening to, or AI? Artists up in arms as tech inches in on their work iol.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iol.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When a friend messaged voice actor Bev Standing to ask whether she was the voice of TikTok’s text-to-speech feature, the Canadian performer’s surprise soon turned to irritation.
She had never done work for the popular social media platform, yet the voice was unmistakably hers.
Standing concluded that speech recordings she had done for another client years earlier had somehow been obtained by TikTok, and fed into an algorithm which allows users to turn written text into a voiceover for video clips in the app.
She sued TikTok in a case that was settled in September one that performing artists say was symptomatic