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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: First known recording of human voice (9-4-1860)
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Recorded on the Phonautograph, an invention of Édouard-Léon Scott de 
Martinville (Frenchman of Scottish ancestry).
The device used a boar's bristle attached to a vibrating membrane. It 
scribed its vibrations onto a surface coated with lampblack.
Scott de Martinville hoped to invent a playback mechanism, but never 
did. Fortunately a few of his recordings survived, and in 2008 some 
smart fellas in California managed to get a voice from the tracings: 
probably Scott de Martinville himself singing (very slowly) the first 
few notes of "Au clair de la lune".

Hear it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dbyIDTmHSM

and another version (at wrong speed?) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpXNqdEUhWY

Much more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard-L%C3%A9on_Scott_de_Martinville

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonautograph

http://www.firstsounds.org/