While researching the numerous examples of the audio heaven that is Richard’s voice, I came across the commercial adverts.
Something that I find myself doing a lot of, is trying to guess the identity of the narrators in television commercials. Often times I will recognize an actor by his voice alone, and will then spend countless hours trying to figure out which character the voice belongs to.
The way they pronounce that certain word or phrase will end up driving me crazy until I figure it out! Yes, I could just look it up on the internet but where’s the challenge in that?
Needless to say, I like voices. So I was very curious to see what kinds of commercials Richard has lent his voice to.
I think the jewelry commercials are my favorite, so sweet.
(click on titles below to listen)
The Winter-Olympics one is nice too
because we know Richard has a personal fondness for skiing.
I’m not entirely sure what the “Santander” ad is about though
I get too distracted hearing the precise way Richard enunciates Santander. I keep saying it over and over again, out loud (and also the way he pronounces customer)
Highly Distracting!
Nowhere in Particular RA 
Hey, can I ask how you attached the sexy sound clips in your post. I remember researching it a while back but was only available as an extra paid feature.
BTW, whatever Richard’s selling I’m buying 😉
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here’s the support page: http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/#adding-audio-files-to-your-blog
and if I hear Richard’s voice, I WILL pay attention, no matter the product 😉
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Lovely choice of voice clips ya got there! Although I doubt if there are any bad ones anyway 😉
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there are less interesting ones available but you’re right, they are all good 🙂
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I like them all as well -jewelry best -but also olympics.
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I can hear a passion in his voice for the skiing one that isn’t there in the others. it feels like something more than just acting, and that enhances the enjoyment for me
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I wish they were able to get him to do commercials for other countries too. Now *there’s* a voice that could talk me into buying just about anything! 😉
IIRC, Santander is the name of a bank. If I lived in the UK he could no doubt tempt me to switch my account over 😀
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yes, he says something about fees and bank machines in there somewhere. let me listen to it again, for research purposes only, of course 😉
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I found one of the video clips showing these Santander ads with Richard doing the voice-over. I think they are cute, including this one!
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BTW I love the way he says the phone number too! 🙂 For those who aren’t familiar with the Formula racing driver shown here, he is English and his name is Lewis Hamilton.
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that was cute! I saw a different one with a kid riding a bike
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I saw that one too! I wonder how many of them he did? Some of the car ads are not bad either. TBH, he could read the phone book and I’d listen to the whole thing with rapt attention 😉
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I’m with you, Teuchter. He could read anything and I would listen. What a voice. I’m surprised the U.S. hasn’t picked him up for his voice.
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They really could sell a lot of things if they used him, couldn’t they? 🙂 I have to say I love watching his hands when he is searching for things like in the Spooks 7 gif above. There is something about the way his fingers move over every nook and cranny that gets to me 😉 *sigh*
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Hope you don’t mind me adding this other ad for Santander that you saw Kelbel! I mean it is *Richard’s* voice here! 😉
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He has me at “Hello” – how about you? 😀
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no, I don’t mind. the more examples of Richard’s voice, the better!
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Overdraft has never sounded so sexy.
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I saw some numbers in there and I didn’t run away, so that’s a bonus!
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Only for Richard Armitage will I voluntarily listen to a commercial. A commercial that I have to listen to *another* commercial not featuring Mr. Armitage in order to hear. 😀
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