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🧵 In the middle of the night on May 24, TikTok changed its voice. The woman’s voice that could read your video’s text out loud in a slightly stilted, robotic cadence was suddenly replaced by one with an almost smirky, upbeat tone. But why? https://t.co/wK1juEA7Lc — PolitiTweet.org

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Scientist racing to track the evolution of covid tap into a little-known system developed by a few young researchers in Scotland. https://t.co/9V2vzPQmEB — PolitiTweet.org

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Many TikTok users assumed that the original text-to-speech voice they heard on the app wasn’t a real person. But it was: it belonged to Canadian voice actor @BevStanding, and she had never given ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, permission to use it. — PolitiTweet.org

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