Documentary voice over services

Anything from classic, authoritative 'blue-chip' narration to warm, personal or dramatic reads. We cast and direct to match the tone of your film and its audience.

Yes. We provide UN-style voice replacement, where the translated narration plays over the original interview — the standard approach for documentaries — as well as full dubbing where you need it.

Yes. We handle script translation and native-speaker narration in 100+ languages, produced to the same broadcast standard as the original.

Yes. We produce and deliver audio to the technical standards broadcasters and streaming platforms require, timed to your picture where needed.

It depends on running time, number of languages and delivery specs. Send us the details and your project manager will confirm a clear quote.

Send the script and, if you have it, a rough cut. Narration written to be read aloud over pictures behaves differently from narration written on the page, and we would rather flag that before the session than during it.

Casting, a session recorded to picture, editing, and delivery mastered to the broadcaster's loudness specification — EBU R128 for most European deliveries.

We produce documentary voice over for documentaries, factual series, corporate films and museum guides — all recorded to broadcast quality and ready to publish.

The hardest thing to get right in documentary narration is restraint. The pictures are carrying the story, and a read that competes with them makes the film feel like an advert. We direct for that, and we will say so if a script is pitched louder than the footage needs.

Yes, though for documentary the demos are the least useful part. Send us two minutes of the actual script and we will have shortlisted narrators read it against your rough cut — stamina and restraint over a long piece are what you are really choosing, and no reel shows either.

Yes. We can record to your locked edit so the narration sits precisely against the visuals, pauses and music, or to script if you're still cutting. Recording to picture is common for factual film, where pacing against the images matters.

It depends on the subject — authoritative and measured for history or science, warm and intimate for human stories, energetic for travel or sport. We shortlist voices to the feel you want and direct the read so it guides the viewer without overpowering the footage.

Yes. For interviews, testimony and archive in another language, we record UN-style voice over laid over the original audio, so the viewer hears the authenticity of the original alongside a clear translation. We handle the translation and timing in-house.

Yes — it's core to what we do. We narrate, voice over or dub a documentary across 100+ languages with native talent, keeping tone and terminology consistent, and can deliver matched subtitle versions too.