
On October 25th, 2016, "Title Theme & Ending – 7 GRAND DAD", (shown below, right) was uploaded as part of the staged ending to the channel. On June 24th, 2016, the YouTube channel SiIvagunner uploaded "Menu – Garfield," (shown below, left) a Garfielf parody featuring the mascot and main protagonist of the channel, SiIva, and 7 Grand Dad being voiced by the Wiseguy and Jerkface TTS voices, respectively. The text to speech voices used in the original became so ubiquitous that they would be used to voice the characters in non-Garfielf Garfield videos. Videos featuring non-Garfield characters that saw them acting and being voiced like Garfield and Jon in Garfielf were also made. Other people would create videos made up of MS Paint drawings of Garfield characters, in which Jon and Garfield were voiced by the same TTS, acting similarly to how Garfield and Jon acted in Garfielf. On the 28th of February, 2014, YouTube user Nano reuploaded the same video, but with his voice replacing the Text to Speech. The video also contains the psychedelic rock song "Coc'n Rolla" by Begnagrad. The video consists of various MS Paint renderings of Garfield and Jon being voiced by the VoiceForge text to speech narrators Wiseguy and Jerkface, respectively. On the 4th of April, 2013, YouTube user PilotRedSun uploaded a video entitled "Garfielf". The popularity of the original video spawned a number of remakes and parodies featuring MS Paint artwork and the same voices for text to speech narration. Garfielf refers to an intentionally poor quality parody video of Garfield, made by Jim Davis. The lawsuit claims damages for “the emotional distress of having her likeness exploited without consent loss of the ability to control the dissemination of her likeness and loss of the ability to control the association of her likeness.Cat, comic, parody, ms paint, paint, garfield, jon, text to speech, odie, garfielf, tts, pilotredsun, voiceforge, wiseguy and jerkface, begnagrad, nano, lycan jonze About Standing said she recognised her voice after people began sending her TikTok videos. However, earlier in May, professional voice actor Beverly Standing sued ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, because her voice was used in the app's text-to-speech feature without her permission.Īccording to Insider's report, the lawsuit claims that Standing was hired by an "Institute of Acoustics" to "perform voice work purportedly for Chinese translations".

The voice has now changed in North America, but TikTok has not yet made any comment about the new voice or why it has been updated. The Text-To-Speech voices vary by country and region (in the UK, for example, it's a male voice). Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, did TikTok change the Text-To-Speech voice? Why did TikTok changes the Text-To-Speech voice?
