[HN Gopher] The oldest known recording of a human voice [video]
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       The oldest known recording of a human voice [video]
        
       Author : YeGoblynQueenne
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-07-15 22:49 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | thegrim33 wrote:
       | Skip to 3:10 if you just want to hear the voice and not have 3
       | minutes of preamble.
        
         | nadermx wrote:
         | Thank you for saving me three minutes of my life to only hear
         | some humming
        
         | gelatocar wrote:
         | FWIW I found the whole video quite interesting, I had never
         | really considered that there could be sound recordings from
         | before anyone had thought of a way to play them back. Though I
         | do remember an old mythbusters episode [1] where they tested
         | whether it was possible for audio to be "accidentally" recorded
         | on a pot when a piece of grass happened to mark the pot while
         | spinning.
         | 
         | [1]
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2006_season)#Pott...
        
           | nonameiguess wrote:
           | I don't think this was a real myth. This was an X-Files
           | episode in which a clay pot that has been molded while Jesus
           | was ordering Lazarus to rise from the dead could be used to
           | bring other people back from the dead by playing back the
           | recording. If I'm remembering correctly, even in X-Files this
           | was actually a hoax.
        
         | yellowapple wrote:
         | Or this version to compare the raw recording v. after a bit of
         | denoising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dbyIDTmHSM
         | 
         | EDIT: or (allegedly) the whole collection of everything he
         | recorded (or at least what survived to today):
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbIJc05QTA
         | 
         | EDIT 2: or some recordings as part of a writeup by the
         | researchers: https://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php
        
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