• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, January 30, 2024

Here's a pitch I didn't expect to see given the rise of generative AI applications: a new platform offering human-generated voiceovers for ad campaigns.

Well, not just any campaigns, but ones for nonprofits that need an authentic voice to make an authentic appeal for public service announcements, fundraising videos, marketing videos, tutorials or YouTube and other social media efforts.

The platform, aptly dubbed "Volunteer Voice Over," is not completely altruistic and it does have a motive: enabling new and emerging voiceover talent to gain experience, build their portfolios and -- ideally -- move on to some profit-making gigs too.

To learn more, check out the scrappy new platform's site here, or feel free to stop by its Indiegogo page.

Or at the very least, here Founder Melissa Harlow explain it -- in her own voice -- in the video above.