March 2008 — News
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Earliest Human Voice Recording Debuts Online
The technology to play back the recording was developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and involved scanning the grooves of the recordings onto a computer, then playing back the audio using a "virtual stylus."
Other recordings from the phonautograph also exist, including one supposedly of a human voice from 1857, but the organization has not yet been able to decode it in a format that makes the recording audibly recognizable.
More information about the "Au clair" recording and additional phonautograph recording samples can be found at First Sounds' site in MP3 format here.
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