'We've suffered so much as Maple Leafs fans.

'That was so huge for us,' said Callaghan, who said she grew up just west of Toronto and remembers watching teams led by Hockey Hall of Fame forward Doug Gilmour with her father. 'Whether it is search or navigation, there are so many things that have voices that assist us, I just assumed everyone knew there were actually people behind these voices.'Ĭallaghan's every day voice is of course distinguishable from the famous TikTok voice over, which she described in one of her many humorous videos as 'sounding happy all the time.' But when the Maple Leafs finally broke through with a win against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference First Round the happy voice was out in full force. 'The voice of Siri and I talk,' said Callaghan, referring to another wildly popular video she made with Susan Bennett, the original voice of Apple's voice assistant. 'I did know ahead of time that once you open that can, you can't close it,' Callaghan joked.Ĭallaghan said she was surprised how many people thought the voice was computer generated. The clip quickly went viral and the end result has left her with nearly a million followers on the app, which actually isn't that far behind Bieber. 'I didn't have a TikTok account at the time. 'I figured I would just do a TikTok to let people who had been asking me know that, yes, that was my voice,' Callaghan told NHL.com.

If you are not familiar with that name, please believe it when we say that you have almost assuredly heard her voice.Ĭallaghan is the voice over artist behind the most popular text-to-speech function on TikTok, the video-based social media platform that has been downloaded more than 3 billion times worldwide.Ī veteran of radio and commercial work, Callaghan, a lifelong Maple Leafs fan, finally confirmed she was the voice of TikTok in the fall, although colleagues and listeners of her radio show had long suspected it.

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