Meet Kat Callaghan, the Voice Behind TikTok's Text-to-Speech Feature | On Air with Ryan Seacrest

Meet Kat Callaghan, the Real Voice Behind TikTok's Text-to-Speech Feature

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[BevStanding]

when Kat ("Jesse") replaced my voice (I'm the original TTS voice) I received many nasty emails saying they hated her voice and I am so glad that narrative has changed because I knew she was a person and she is so nice.

[Poser-gflb]

I remember her in high school. Still as cheery and lovely. Way to make the Doyle Alumnis proud

[chaelmavik]

Hearing her regular voice after hearing the weirdly cheerful TTS is crazy

[pedrohpf]

Well now I feel bad for hating hearing her voice all the time, she's lovely!
And yes, they use AI to replicate her voice to say anything. She did have to speak a lot to gather a good amount of data to train the AI, but no need to say every single word that exists.

[DisabledExplorer]

Kat represented the Waterloo Region Awesomely, On-Air with Ryan Seacrest, :D #Epic

[SammySamSams]

Hearing the tts is like listening to a teaser of a song and the real voice actor is like hearing the entire song

[dillyb-]

She is a host for 91.5 the beat I listen to her and Scott every morning

[nfiRe]

her voice sounds and can actually be iconic, like sportscasters' voices

[norino]

Imagine hearing your own voice in every single TikTok video you scroll through

[StefanSteinerWA]

Eventually I hope her automated voice will sound more like her voice in RL.

[jonathanfalkowsky]

So she is the voice who mispronounces so many words.

[alexzia]

Man the 2 lady’s working at Ryan’s station are so annoying. Can’t stand to hear them.

[TayWoode]

It’s not her or her voice that’s annoying, it’s the people who use it for useless life hacks or stupid pranks or to say something bad in a cheery way that winds people up, just like people overusing the word “wholesome” to describe everything