The first known recording of a human voice, from April 9th, 1860. (Phonautograph Etching)
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- On 9th March 2008, this ethereal 10 second clip of a man (or woman) singing the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune", was played for the first time in 150 years. It is currently thought to be the oldest known recorded human voice, predating Thomas Edison's first phonograph recording of 1877. The "phonautograph", created by etching soot-covered paper by Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, was played by US scientists using a "virtual stylus" to read the lines. The recording was initially believed to be the voice of a woman or adolescent, but further research in 2009 suggested the playback speed had been too high and that it was actually the voice of Scott himself. This would make sense since it would have been scott operating the machine, which is easier to time if you yourself are also producing the sound. (Incidentally, the "phonautograph" was designed only to record sounds, not to play them back. Thomas Edison was still the first to reproduce recorded sound.)
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Only 60's kids will remember this.
Only 1860's kids will remember this.. Oh wait, they're all dead..
+ThatOneQ0r no shit sherlock
ThatOneQ0r wow you solved the mystery
doesn't get humor
This must have been really hard for them to hear lol
when the first ever recorded human voice has actually better mic quality than mine
Archerfish Johns
Your profile pic says it all.
better discord call quality than mine
Sounds like an angry kid on discord
lol it costs ten bucks for a mic man, cmon
i think the ending is it when fixed and cleaned up by ppl from today
There was over 1 billion people alive when this was recorded. They're all dead now. Let that sink in.
it's like seeing old footage from the 1930s
+Gray-z That's deep.
everyone who was alive when this was recorded is now dead, in fact there are only two people from the 1800s still alive and they were both born in 1899
+Gray-z What does that sink want this time?
I don't know why but that scares me
Ah, so these are what CS:GO players use?
xD just played comp with lems and 1 of them had a mic like this
yuh
This audio is actually good and perfect better thans todays mic quality. Todays mic quality is shit. Micheal p mic is perfect
They used autotune
tf
It kinda sounds like he did..
Auto tune wasn’t invented until 1997
@@Cryseris that’s the joke
@@majime1246 goddamit I was woooshed
Who finds the voice creepy?
Me...;-;
Yeah I couldn't listen to this alone at night
you call a beautiful opera voice creepy?
It's a voice?
what fucking voice? i couldnt hear shit
So much better than today's music.
HA!
Hipster.
Were you born in the wrong generation?
I hope your being sarcastic now the real music is from the 30s to the 50s blues and rock n roll and gospel
_"now the real music is from the 30s to the 50s blues and rock n roll and gospel"_
Bullshit. Pure and simple.
wow the last ten seconds was actually really clear.
You made my day ! Or my night XD
😂😂
They had many chances to record Lincoln's voice (or would Mary disapprove?)
I think it might’ve been modified to sound actually audible but if it’s not then holy FUCK that’s amazing
@@bobbyfrancis8957 Why would she have?
Still better than Justin Bieber
Hahahahahaha
XD
100%
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Noice.
Still sounds better than Skype, if you ask me.
The person singing during this could have lived during the time of napoleon. Let that sink in.
No, he was born in the 1830s, so unfortunately he didn’t live in the time of Napoleon
Well he did live when Napoleon III was around
What the fuck does it want now
@@JosiahJS976 he actually born two years after Waterloo (1817) and died in 1879. Napoleon was still alive back then, exiled in St. Helena. However, just like you said de Martinville probably spend the rest of his life living under Napoleon III
"i hate my generation of music"
Almost any music related video had that written somewhere in the long lists of comments, until it became such a stereotype, years ago. What's next, you have to wonder.
@@Bhatt_Hole Any thing that makes the most money, for the interested parties. Same as today.
It's cool that this guy's voice is immortalized, the inventor and also the first human voice ever recorded. He's the very first recording artist! He sang the first folk song ever recorded.
Technically what you hear is not his actual voice or whoever's voice was used to sing into Édouard-Léon Scott's phonautogram. The device had no audio playback ability. It used sound vibrations traveling through air to scratch needle lines through soot onto a sheet of parchment. Scott gave this parchment to the Académie des Sciences in France, where they remained for almost 150yrs until Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory created virtual stylus technology which is a type of computer software that can "playback" or read the lines drawn on Scott's parchment paper. How it's able to do this and capture the specific tone of voice, I'm not sure. In summary, what we're hearing is modern computer software's rendition of a voice that was drawn on paper over 150yrs ago, during the time of my grandpa's grandpa. It's not like someone speaking into a phonograph and then audibly hearing it played back to them.
I find it amazing that technology has moved so far forward in a relatively short space of time. This was over 150 years ago and you now have things like iphones and so on. There seems to have been more progress made in terms of technology and so on in the last couple of centuries than there was in the however many thousands of years beforehand.
Kblogg 777 The Law of Accelerating Returns
@FirstName Last what
Yeah no shit
Imagine what the quality will be like in another million years! :)
What is really troubling is that archeology has reveal several setbacks in technology development. Settlements along the Black Sea were 3000 years ahead….or, put another way, they were wiped out and it took 3000 years for their lost technology to reappear.
Well this isn't something you want to listen to alone in the middle of the night! 😱
Now you tell me?
Creepy as fuck... xD
fact the first recording that had singing was a man who had been castrated!
look up 5 Eeriest recordings: by thoughty2
It's only scary when you still hear the singing after you take off your headphones.
that's what i'm doing right now
hearing the voice of long deceased widely known public figures would still be quite amazing experience :)
Wish I wasn't listening to this at 4am. Now I know for sure I won't be able to sleep.
On April 9, 1860 my grandfather's great-grandfather was 5 years older than I am today.
Or, to give a more general example, at least one veteran of the American Revolutionary War, one Mr. Lemuel Cook, was still alive in 1860 (he was 101 years old at the time!).
The notion that technology existed that could have recorded their "voices" if they had been in Paris, France on that date is chilling.
That would’ve been amazing. Hearing someone from the 1700s would’ve been insane!
8 of the surviving veterans of the revolution were interviewed for a book "the last men of the revolution" in 1864. One of them is disputed but 7 have been verified since the book was released.
Put this on a Halloween soundtrack, and you'll be a millionaire.
People may say it's creepy, but I say it's heartwarming and nice to see just how far we have evolved as a species and seeing the beginnings of things we now take for granted
sounds like the last thing you'll ever hear
imagine the joy he had when he realised he could work on this "barely understandable voice"
And to think that nowadays we only buy the mic, install the drivers, plug it in, and VOILA! It's already working. Simply amazing.
No need to install drivers when it's an analogue mic even (you can strip the DAC too).
@@Zedek you never uploaded 4 years now wow im glad i saw your comment on 2 years i also know DooM as well ;)
It's not a national anthem, it's "Au Clair de la Lune", which is sung by the kids at the end (in the same key). The process Martinville used is fully understood, and is similar to vinyl etching later used on LPs. Martinville also wrote descriptions of sounds against many of the etchings.
Interesting, but creepy.
Who else started cracking up when the kids started singing at the end?
NO ONE! IT WAS FUCKING TERRIFYING
At the very end, yes. But the high voice before that is actually a mans. The recording was made by using a primitive vibration/scratch method. When trying to play it, the researchers had to decide at what frequency. They originally did it wrong and assumed the mad had recorded a child or something. But after viewing more of his notes they changed the frequency and it sounded like a French man.
Me 😂😂
Amazing, the recording is great despite being 150 years old.
creepy as fuck
Are you capable of discussing ANY topic without using an obscenity?
Art Shifrin no ;***
+The Voice Of Showgun and the savage of the year award goes to...
im 12 and I like this so much better than my generation's music.
Music today is fucking gay hands down garbage
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+TheWhiteRider31 you smell like shit
+TheWhiteRider31 Ok.
+TheWhiteRider31 why do you think we care how old you are?
This recording is now 160 years old. That's just astonishing.
still better that Sweatshirt
holy fuck XD true
This is masterpiece
It's amazing how clear some of the vocal characteristics are in this recording.
sounds like a kid screaming down the mic on xbox live
Thats the creepiest shit ive heard ever.
bruh i’m scared now
Gives me chills
I’m listening to this at 2 am and it’s legit creepy as fuck lol
the voice of someone who probably lived at the same time as napoleon.
I learned that in 1860, I wasn't born yet.
No kidding?
Sounds better than Justin Beiber...
The idea was not to play back because Scott thought it might be a way to make dictation easier. Since each type of sound creates a different pattern, he thought by looking at those patterns, it would be possible to "read" what people had spoken. A brilliant idea that unfortunately didn't work.
Okay, it's creepy!
This was recorded when Abraham Lincoln was still alive and before he even became president.
Good question! It was known that the movement of tuning fork prongs could be traced on paper by attaching a pen to one or both of them and then running paper underneith. Simple sinewave forms were traced on the paper. Also, experiments had been done as far back as Galileo who had demonstrated the relationship between pitch and the frequency lines etched into a brass plate when a chisel friction produces a clear tone (see brass plate video) .
Is it worth mentioning how long it took before that 1860 paper recording was able to be transferred back into Audio? It wasn’t until the 1990’s, or was it earlier?
Creepiest thing i have ever heard... Im sleeping at my moms tonight
Loved to have heard and seen footage of all those famous people e.g. Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Paganini Capt. Cook the list goes on...
What an interesting invention that Mr. Martinville have ever created in the 1860s. Those words "Au Clair de la lune" means in English: "In the Moonlight". It must be a song that a French singer have said.
It trips me out that within the past 160 years we've gone from the first ever audio recording in the known universe, to live streaming 4k video and hi-fi audio all over the world. When you consider humans have been around 200,000+ years, and life has been around 4 billion years, to make that much progress in a measly 160 is mind boggling.
Makes you wonder if some dinosaur species had their 200 years of advancement out of the millions of years they were on the planet….
@@KK-pq6lu I doubt it, because cities like the ones we've built would have left evidence even after millions of years. But... what if it was some ocean species that advanced this far, and we've never found the evidence because it's all at the bottom of the ocean, way far out where we've never looked?
I've thought about this a lot of times, it's really inconceivable if you think about the multitude of time that has passed.
I think the tsame thing will happen once we master the fusion reactor. What will happen to capitalism once energy is abundant and free? a new paradigm I hope
So beautiful!! *cries*
Well, it's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to.
I listened to this when I was smoked up. Sounds creepy as hell.
Y’all do realize the voices at the end are modern recordings added to the video, right?
This is on my playlist
@MsHoly777 The idea of recording sound was part of a wider effort to study natural phenomena through measurement. At that time, there was no concept of playing sound back, so it probably never occurred to anyone that such a thing was even possible. Hope that helps.
Yes, in fact, the idea at the time was to train people to read the squiggles!!
@@KK-pq6lu Something that is still done today in seismometry, astronomy, and medical fields, among others. So it wasn't a crazy idea:).
As of this year this audio recording is 160 years old. That's well over twice the average lifespan of a human.
scott was the first person to record a voice, and still nobody recognizes it and thinks edison did all the work.
This is sort of creepy and eerie, especially when you really think about how this was from over 150 years ago, from a person who has long passed.
much earlier than edison who stole anything and everything and took credit for all.
From whom did TAE steal phonographic sound recording?????
From whom did he "steal" the incandescent light bulb????
many things were invented by tesla and other inventors at the time.
jack g You're just flamboyantly parroting what other, better trolls have claimed.
fact vs fiction. I suggest watching youtube movie about tesla. Also on Netflix. Telsla was well educated while Edison was not but rather hit and miss research.
you need to inform yourself so much better. Edison invented almost nothing but his hired workers actually did. Edison had no engineering education. Look up the stories of Tesla, your eyes will open with shock.
The first voice ever recorded sounded like boogeyman in his true form
Extraordinary to hear the voice of a man who lived during the Second Empire.
No one:
The mosquito in my room at 2am: 0:33
First record and for sure one of the best songs ever!
This is sad, and strangely unsettling. To think that this is the voice of someone from more than 150 years ago. A person who had dreams, goals and aspirations, now no longer alive an only a faint echo left behind.
Das life, dawg.
That's gonna be all of us bro
This is honestly comforting
Can someone please explain how sound is actually captured ? how does it hold and stay on the medium? I'v eseen so many videos but they don't say how ??? please and thanks
I wish we got Abraham lincoln recorded on this.
There was a rumor for many years that Scott had recorded Lincoln's voice; however, it is extremely unlikely.
This is the voice of Léon Scott Martinville, inventor of this recording process on carbonized paper. It is played back faster than it was recorded. It was retrieved by laser technology in 2008. It is a facinating peice of history but it does not diminish the work of Edison. This method of recording could produce nothing more than a curiosity. What Edison accomplished was far greater than a mere machine, but that of the phenomenally successful recording industry and the pop music culture.
This man didn’t need no auto tune.
There are some really warm sounds in this ancient recording.
Sounds better then my old iPhone
I was born in the wrong generation
Lmao If you were born in that generation most likely you would want to be in this generation once more. I'm telling you. Be careful what you wish for.
who else sat here wondering when the voice came when suddenly the realisation:
*wait ive been listening to it the whole time*
It's weird how April is called the worst month since so many tragedies happened in it. But good things happened in April too.
Nobody:
Kid's mic on Xbox live:
Normie:
Nobody:
0:49 just think, they don’t think they would or been heard from hundreds of years from now! It’s 2020 and here we are ❤️ let’s appreciate it! In hundreds of years from they actually have audio tapes of US talking and singing
Today's April 9, 2020
This recording was made 160 years ago.
@sleepypie I can't tell if this is satire or XD
Edit: Judging from your previous comments, that's probably satire. Just had to make sure because I've met tons of kids who can't even fcking multiply.
I know, I made an obvious statement. And so, it was just an observation I made. I just couldn't believe I heared a piece of recording made hundreds of years ago.
0:05-0:09 where they got the sample for “Look at me Now”
why? what's so scary about it? It's only a beautiful record of history.
Oh please guys, one more comment that Lincoln lived when this was made!! Only 6 or 7 of them are not enough ... Cause he truly was the only important person in that time .. on this beautiful planet, called USA.
You don't understand why Americans single him out more than any other person in that era? Read the Cooper Union Address and then we'll talk about it.
starts slow applauding ...
Boyd Nar In 1860 also lived Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Charles Darwin, Richard Wagner, Verdi, Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Tschaikovsky, Bismarck, Van Gogh, Caspar David Friedrich, Gaugin .. just sayin'!
The United Sates is not a planet.
N & D Gaming yes but they pretend that they are the planet.
Never try this on headphones...
I feel like an underappreciated part of this is how it still managed to be preserved all these years later
Too bad Abraham Lincoln's voice wasn''t recorded. I have heard that although he was a very tall man, he had a curiously high voice.
And what would the warmongering bastard have said? "Let's go kill a bunch of people in the south, who want to negotiate with us but I turned them away, so we can "free" a bunch of people who we brought over here from some other continent against their will, unlike us crazy bastards, who came willingly and then killed the natives & stole their land, instead of us all just going home to our own continents and sending the blacks to Africa where they belong...."
Are you okay bro?
John Wilkes Booth!!! You're alive!
Fixit Mann Leave it to the internet to find something negative with literally abolishing slavery in the US.
Fixit Mann He might have said that...or he might have said “Two sugars please”.
Ik. It sounds like a ghost is singing lol
Only OG’s remember when this dropped
I am fascinated by this
that last one was a little hq lol was the last one an actual sound recording from then?
has any one checked this... backward?
I know this was a joke, but I did... It was lame.
My goodness! When you listen to it backwards, it clearly says "Paul is dead"!
Ljayvee6 It's a Beatles reference. Remember when everyone thought they saw clues on the Abbey Road album cover that Paul was dead?
I doubt it. You can barely hear it forward.
alone in my living room at 5am in the morning listening to this. creeped out none the less
Didn’t realize sprint was using the same technology back then
This is some new shit tho I remember the old classics like hearing rocks bang together in caves... Damn... some good ass times... ( lmao I hope u would get it )
Why are the comments on this video so cringy...
Wow so cool. Very first human recording ever. Can't believe its so old!
this is very touching (154 years ago).
:)
Horrible quality. No wonder they are all dead now - they were bad at stuff.
This must be a joke
smh
Ik it's joke, but can't u think if this people didnt hard work to invent this stuff, maybe the first sound will be invemted in 1900s or 1910s
ngl y'all gotta chill i'm sure this person isn't actually glad they're dead. slightly bad delivery? of course. it's just a joke
Creepypasta
You’re letting my observation sink in. Let that sink in.
He did sing one of the hit new songs of that particular period
Creepy at best
I'm only 13 but I think that the music of today is just disgusting poppy trash. Who is this Con Yay West?? This is real music and shows how I'm more intellectual and more cultured than my classmates!
i lost brain cells reading this comment
such original joke lol!!!!1 xDDD i wonder why nobody else has made this kind of comment yet!!1
That was some fire 🔥🔥
Thats wonderful . Its interesting to learn how thing began.