BY SOPHIA SMITH GALER
People on TikTok have developed a specific accent – would you recognise it if you heard it?
Before I switch on the ringlight, even before I’ve loaded my battery into my camera, I already know what I’m going to say. I press record, look at the lens, and deliver my script. In about seven minutes it’s all done – a new video for TikTok. Afterwards, I think no more about the words that I’ve said, and certainly not the way I delivered them. At least, until now.
It turns out there may be a “TikTok voice”. It apparently includes “uptalk” – a rising intonation on declarative sentences – and “vocal fry”: a soft creak as you speak.
If you want to know what that sounds like, I explained in this video for TikTok:
(Source: BBC)
