His voice is soft, raspy, grandfatherly. [157], Attenborough is a lifelong supporter of the BBC, public service broadcasting and the television licence. In March 2017, a 430million year old tiny crustacean was named after him. Search for jobs related to David attenborough voice over or hire on the world's largest freelancing marketplace with 21m+ jobs. Did you know that this year, David Attenborough will be 95 years old? [74] A second film, The Penguin King 3D, followed a year later. [194], A British polar research ship was named RRS Sir David Attenborough in his honour. Later the same year he filmed elephants in Tanzania, and in 1969 he made a three-part series on the cultural history of the Indonesian island of Bali. No history items. The film acts as Attenborough's witness statement, reflecting on his career as a naturalist and his hopes for the future. He became a pioneer in the 3D documentary format with Flying Monsters in 2010. Guy Harris - Award winning British Male Voiceover - UK based - 2000 - 2022 VoiceoverGuy . While the negotiations were proceeding, he worked on a number of other television projects. The fake audio replicates the speech pattern of the real voice but it is still noisy. Life on Air (2002) examined the legacy of his work, and Attenborough the Controller (2002) focused on his time in charge of BBC Two. "[155] He strongly opposes creationism and its offshoot "intelligent design", saying that the results of a survey that found a quarter of science teachers in state schools believe that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in science lessons was "really terrible". His first jobafter Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navywas at a London publishing house. "[24], After leaving the Navy, Attenborough took a position editing children's science textbooks for a publishing company. Instead, he formed his own department, the Travel and Exploration Unit,[29] which allowed him to continue to front Zoo Quest as well as produce other documentaries, notably the Travellers' Tales and Adventure series. His career as a natural history and broadcaster has spanned nearly seven decades. He wrote and presented a series on man's influence on the natural history of the Mediterranean Basin, The First Eden, in 1987. In terms of being a voice talent for nature documentaries, he is truly peerless. The source, which he did not reveal at the time, was a pond right next to the department. [274], David Attenborough's work as an author has strong parallels with his broadcasting career. In 1990, The Trials of Life completed the original Life trilogy, looking at animal behaviour through the different stages of life. "[161][162] In 2008, he criticised the BBC's television schedules, positing that the two senior networks, BBC One and BBC Two which Attenborough stated were "first set up as a partnership" now "schedule simultaneously programmes of identical character, thereby contradicting the very reason that the BBC was given a second network. Called Cascolus ravitis, the first word is a Latin translation of the root meaning of "Attenborough", and the second is based on a description of him in Latin. He is Honorary Patron of the North American Native Plant Society[186] and was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science. Featuring high fidelity TTS WaveNet voices, our text to speech tool reads text aloud and enables you to download voice audio in MP3 format. [165], In a 2020 interview, Attenborough criticised excess capitalism as a driver of ecological imbalance, stating "the excesses the capitalist system has brought us, have got to be curbed somehow", and that "greed does not actually lead to joy", although he added "That doesn't mean to say that capitalism is dead". Hi there,I can narrate scripts in a David Attenborough 'impersonation', and have had work published in a variety of roles that encompass this voice. [210], In 1993, after discovering that the Mesozoic reptile Plesiosaurus conybeari did not belong to the genus Plesiosaurus, the palaeontologist Robert Bakker renamed the species Attenborosaurus conybeari. This is the man that has soothed us with his voice for probably our entire lifetimes; he is ever-present in nature documentaries and for good reason. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer and it was while working . [2] He is widely considered a national treasure in the UK, although he himself does not like the term. [95] It was released on Netflix on 4 October 2020. These programmes tell a particular story and I'm sure others will come along and tell it much better than I did, but I do hope that if people watch it in 50 years' time, it will still have something to say about the world we live in. In 2006, British television viewers were asked to vote for their Favourite Attenborough Moments for a UKTV poll to coincide with the broadcaster's 80th birthday. [41], In 1969, Attenborough was promoted to director of programmes, making him responsible for the output of both BBC channels. If you are an aspiring voice talent,contact us nowfor more info. The series contains a number of memorable two shots of Attenborough and his subjects, which included chimpanzees, a blue whale and a grizzly bear. [] There is a lot of people who want to see the BBC weakened. [191] In September 2009, London's Natural History Museum opened the Attenborough Studio, part of its Darwin Centre development. A voice that is undoubtedly imitating that of the renowned broadcaster, biologist, and voice of BBC's Planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough, jokingly explains how the Russian tank was put out to pasture.Using the migration paths of Pacific salmon as a point of comparison, the Attenborough-esque narration goes on to explain that Russian tanks migrate from "the abyss" of Russia to end their . Well, it is not a theory. [161] In 2013, Attenborough joined rock guitarists Brian May and Slash in opposing the government's policy on the cull of badgers in the UK by participating in a song dedicated to badgers. The channel already had an Irish announcer, with Attenborough reflecting in 2016: "To have had two Irishmen presenting on BBC Two would have looked ridiculous. [164] Prior to the 2015 UK general election, Attenborough was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. Demos Cepstral Voices can speak any text they are given with whatever voice you choose. In State of the Planet (2000), he used the latest scientific evidence and interviews with leading scientists and conservationists to assess the impact of human activities on the natural world. - Society for the History of Natural History", "AIB announces Winners of 2011 AIBs International Media Awards | AIB", "Naturalist Sir David Attenborough Awarded Individual Peabody", "Moscow Society of Naturalists official site", "Gold Medal-Award Recipients since its inception in 1972", "LI to honour Sir David Attenborough with the Landscape Institute Medal", "Davos 2019: Meet the Crystal Award winners", "David Attenborough: 'The Garden of Eden is no more'. [2], Attenborough's contribution to broadcasting and wildlife film-making has brought him international recognition. Have you searched through the deepest darkest jungles to find a David Attenborough sound-a-like voice? 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This is no comment whatsoever on Terry Wogan's talents. [27], He accepted Adams' offer of a three-month training course. [273] He narrated every episode of the long-running BBC series Wildlife on One. Alistair Heap / Alamy. Through this programme, Attenborough met Jack Lester, the curator of the zoo's reptile house, and they decided to make a series about an animal-collecting expedition. We're looking for a voice actor that can do a really convincing David Attenborough. In 2020, he backed a Fauna and Flora International campaign calling for a global moratorium on deep sea mining for its impact on marine life. [212] In 2015, a species of tree from Gabon (in the Annonaceae family) Sirdavidia Couvreur & Sauquet was named with his title. It's free to sign up and bid on jobs. Looking for an awesome David Attenborough voice impression on Planet Earth? What is a theory is whether natural selection is the mechanism and the only mechanism. "[148] He said that "anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."[148]. "[56], However, in 2010 Attenborough asserted that his First Life dealing with evolutionary history before Life on Earth should be included within the "Life" series. [110][111][112][113] In Seven Worlds, One Planet, Attenborough discusses the devastating impact that deforestation is having on the planet and the species. British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926). [37][38] Others followed, including Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man (also commissioned by Attenborough), and Alistair Cooke's America. [48], Beginning with Life on Earth in 1979, Attenborough set about creating a body of work which became a benchmark of quality in wildlife film-making, and influenced a generation of documentary film-makers. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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