TikTok is one of the most popular social media applications with more than 1 billion users around the world.

On this episode of What happened to…? Erica Vella speaks to Bev Standing, the original voice behind TikTok’s text-to-speech feature. She also speaks with Kat Callaghan, the woman behind TikTok’s current text-to-speech character “Jessie.” She learns about the adoption and evolution of the feature, and how it changed the way users create and interpret TikTok videos.

Find out more at: https://globalnews.ca/news/9888850/what-happened-to-tiktok-text-to-speech-voice/

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