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I wonder where they find the guys selling their voice like that. Not that there is a high bar in advertising, but this is on another level.

derelicta 3y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if it did come straight out of Amazon Mechanical Turks.
Almondsetat 3y ago
Voice acting is not a mystical profession only partaken by the creme of the crop of Ivy League graduates. Plenty of broke people who can talk and read are willing to say anything for $5 online
- pjc50 3y ago
  If you're willing to go up to $100, you can start hiring Hollywood actors to say greeting messages to you and your family on Cameo.
spacecadet 3y ago
Haha, thats nice of you. Most people wouldn't think twice, and tech no higher bar than advertising... what are our tech giants anyways? but advertising tech platforms.
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
It's a job in the end, if this person didn't take it, someone else would've. If they can't find anyone, they'll just pay more or do it themselves. After all, it wasn't just the voice actor, but the animators, the script writers, and all the chain of command that was involved in this. Morals are flexible especially when money is involved, which is a major problem with capitalism. I too would lend my voice to a clip like this if they offered me enough money.
npteljes 3y ago
It's a regular job. I follow a youtuber who was, before his youtube career, a voice actor among other things, and it's a job like any other. Large companies have large advertising budgets, and they usually pay better than, say, film and animation. Voice actors are often signed to agencies, they have profiles and portfolio. Voice is a product and a service, and agencies can be requested to provide samples for a request like a warm, friendly voice for a 15-minute training video. They have contracts that specify where and how the voice will be used, and if the payment is fixed, dynamic based on a business metric or success of the use, or a mix of these, and how much of that does the agency get. What's interesting is that voices can also be exclusively licensed. You for example Mercedes can request a characteristic voice, and they pay extra so that the actor signs that they will not take another transportation related job, or even any other job for a period. This is how McDonalds has a specific, associated voiceover for every commercial over a period, for example. It becomes part of branding, like a color, a font, or a logo design.
treprinum 3y ago
They can just use VALL-E or ElevenLabs to clone somebody's voice and let AI talk over these points. Trivial.

derelicta 3y ago

Wouldn't be surprised if it did come straight out of Amazon Mechanical Turks.

Almondsetat 3y ago

Voice acting is not a mystical profession only partaken by the creme of the crop of Ivy League graduates. Plenty of broke people who can talk and read are willing to say anything for $5 online

pjc50 3y ago
If you're willing to go up to $100, you can start hiring Hollywood actors to say greeting messages to you and your family on Cameo.

spacecadet 3y ago

Haha, thats nice of you. Most people wouldn't think twice, and tech no higher bar than advertising... what are our tech giants anyways? but advertising tech platforms.

Cthulhu_ 3y ago

It's a job in the end, if this person didn't take it, someone else would've. If they can't find anyone, they'll just pay more or do it themselves. After all, it wasn't just the voice actor, but the animators, the script writers, and all the chain of command that was involved in this. Morals are flexible especially when money is involved, which is a major problem with capitalism. I too would lend my voice to a clip like this if they offered me enough money.

npteljes 3y ago

It's a regular job. I follow a youtuber who was, before his youtube career, a voice actor among other things, and it's a job like any other. Large companies have large advertising budgets, and they usually pay better than, say, film and animation. Voice actors are often signed to agencies, they have profiles and portfolio. Voice is a product and a service, and agencies can be requested to provide samples for a request like a warm, friendly voice for a 15-minute training video. They have contracts that specify where and how the voice will be used, and if the payment is fixed, dynamic based on a business metric or success of the use, or a mix of these, and how much of that does the agency get. What's interesting is that voices can also be exclusively licensed. You for example Mercedes can request a characteristic voice, and they pay extra so that the actor signs that they will not take another transportation related job, or even any other job for a period. This is how McDonalds has a specific, associated voiceover for every commercial over a period, for example. It becomes part of branding, like a color, a font, or a logo design.

treprinum 3y ago

They can just use VALL-E or ElevenLabs to clone somebody's voice and let AI talk over these points. Trivial.