Standing and saying, “They replaced me with another voice.” After a friend notified her of the change, she heard it. The new video has a new sound, and the previous one remains in the older video.

Legal experts said the move shows that the company acknowledged that Standing may have been compromised due to the impact of the video tape, but it does not necessarily mean TikTok will resolve the case.

Since 2014, Standing has been acting as a full-time freelancer for advertising, corporate videos, etc. as narration.

CBC News asked TikTok about the voice change, but the company did not comment on the matter.

No mention of changes In the company’s online newsroom. Standing and saying that neither she nor her lawyer had heard of it from TikTok.

She said: “The whole thing makes me feel overwhelmed. I am stumbling over words because I just don’t know what to say.”

Medical record

Her case was filed in a New York State Court in early May.She said TikTok used her voice In videos watched around the world Since the end of 2020.

According to Standing, her voice function is computer-generated, and the function is built-in. This function can convert the text entered into the application into voice, and then play the voice on the video.

She believes that the company got the sound from the recording. She said that she did it for Acoustics Research, a research institution of the Chinese government, in 2018.

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She said she was told that it would be used for translation, and that this work is reading thousands of English sentences.

Standing and believing that these recordings are owned by TikTok and used to generate text-to-speech narration.

According to copyright experts, this change bodes well for the Standing case.

Pina Dagstino, associate professor at York University’s Osgood Hall School of Law, said: “This is a positive step towards mitigating their damages.”

“When you mitigate the risk, you admit that we did something wrong and you are trying to make things better.”

D’Agostino said that this may imply that TikTok is about to reach a settlement, partly because the case may be detrimental to the company.

If the two parties reach a settlement agreement, she said, Li and the lawyer should try to ensure that their files are deleted from TikTok’s archives, their voices are deleted or their voices replaced, and financial compensation. .

Daniel Tsai, a Toronto-based technology executive and commercial law expert, provided advice to the federal government on intellectual property law, and he agreed that the new voice could help Stantin’s case.

But he suspects TikTok is facing tremendous pressure to resolve, and pointed out that the company does not seem to have lost any revenue or users.

He said that this means that the use of new voices from now on may be the only concession TikTok makes, unless there is a compulsory judgment.

Cai said that if TikTok did use Standing’s voice, in the eyes of the judge, “deleting the existing recording would be similar to taking a smoking gun from the scene of a crime”.

He said: “If I were their lawyer, I would advise against it.”

Cai said that the case is unlikely to be resolved unless the lawsuit begins.

Standing and saying that she is eager to end the case and return to the daily work she likes.

TikTok must respond to her request by July 7.