Less than a year after our enormous investigation into the AI invasion, we are back to report on its first big battleground. A VO in Canada is suing social media giant TikTok over the alleged theft of her voice, and as she womans the barricades, we take a second look at how the UK government is getting on with the boringly-named-but-actually-terribly-important Beijing Treaty…

Here are a couple of fun things to do:

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Find out about straw phonation! All the cool kids are doing it, so join our friend Oren for a free Zoom workshop to find out what it is and how it can help strengthen your voice. https://www.rayvox.co.uk/pages/sovt-workshop

Come to the real, in person, free social we’re running in Manchester on the 7th August! It’s outdoors behind a brewery near the train station and it’s going to be an absolutely blimming lovely time: https://www.thevosocial.com/summer-social-2021

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