Earliest Recording of the Human Voice

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FirstSounds.org has gathered some of the earliest sound recordings. This clip, dating back to 1860, features someone singing the French folksong “Au Clair de la Lune” on April 9, 1860, and it “is the earliest audibly recognizable record of the human voice yet recovered.”


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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Dan Colman | Home | continue to: Rare Recording of Walt Whitman Reading » |


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  1. Mark O'Neill on May 18, 2008 6:35 am

    That isn’t audible! That is just crackling and other noise!

  2. Dan Colman on May 18, 2008 11:26 am

    You can’t hear a voice at all? Admittedly, it is fairly faint.

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