I remember watching the early photos and whatever else from the New Horizons visit to Pluto on my phone, amazed that, as a kid, this was some cold rock in waytheheckout, and there I was, watching it not on the small black and white screen in my childhood home but a much smaller screen with higher resolution, just a few decades later.
@@ericmackrodt9441 yeah but if how would he know if it had been recorded successfully if there was no way of playing it back to prove he had? If you see what I mean
He recorded it in the specific hope that someday someone would be able to listen to it. He probably thought the possibility of success was remote, but he was actively engaged in trying to create a way to record sound. He even thought to record the tone of a tuning fork as a guide for future scientists to interpret it. It was immensely lucky that someone was able to use his records to recreate his voice, but it wasn't an accident that it was possible, just a fantastic tribute to human ingenuity and the personal genius of Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville.
This is the short version of the recording. I heard that at the end of the full recording the man says "don't forget to subscribe and smash that like button!"
@suzylux: Little did he know that human beings, over the entire plane in the future, could listen to him sing that song. It wouldn’t even have been conceivable to him that would even be a possibility.
An archeologist found an ancient clay pot from several thousands years BC. It had a pattern on it that had been made with a stick. The grooves made on the pot contained analog information from vibrations transcribed into the clay. He put a laser to the pot and turned it and was able to replay the sound from inside the ancient pottery shop. It didn't sound like much, but it's from the time before the Roman Empire, not bad.
this never fails to bring tears to my eyes - can you imagine? of all of the powerful voices of the 1860s - all of the politicians and generals and celebrities - the one voice that has been saved from that time isn't the voice of someone powerful. It's the voice of an ordinary man singing claire de la lune. The first recording we have and it''s a song.
makes me wonder about 'aliens' locating that gold record we sent to space......and hundreds of years from now, them finally sitting up all night to hear "i cant get no......satisfaction''''''' 🤣
My replies are double posting I think, IDK. But yeah, imagine that, he had no idea he was going to live on, long after he passed. It truly is remarkable and made me tear up as well.
Yeah. People who throw around the term “lo-fi” today to mean “sparse arrangement” have NO IDEA what lo-fi really means, and they need to listen to this ass recording and get educated.
I think thats true. I met with older people when I was young. They talk slowler. They also like to sing slowly. People today have such short attention spans. Allowing an old timer to share a five minute story with 30 second pauses would blow their minds. Older people understood the gifts of storytelling and gab. The men could charm a female and they never said umm or uhh. Their education was more practical and focused on their ability intact with others.w
@@turbkeysamdwich1880 I was born in 1949 and I think it's interesting to hear how people communicated in the past. What @BWiLL341 said was right and informative, especially to those who were born more recently, Life in general was a lot slower when I was a child, and more so in the distant past
I mean... shrug? If you played it back at 4x speed it would sound even better. Obviously halving the speed is going to halve the represented frequencies and make it sound more muffled. If the guy had ever envisioned that his recordings would be used for more than simply studying waveforms on paper, perhaps he would have finetuned it to pick up higher frequencies better, but we got what we got.
That's incredible! As a recording engineer and music producer I have seen the evolution of audio technology in the past 30 years but to think it all started here makes me understand and marvel at how far the technology has come. Thanks for making this piece.
Kia ora To be privileged to hear an 1850s recording of someone's kaumatua (elder relative) is amazing! Thank you for this marvel. Yours in music from New Zealand❤
I thought it was a bit daft to play another sound while recording, and I don't quite how they did that without interference. They could have used a purely mechanical device (like a clock) to draw on the paper at certain intervals.
@@brinta2868 Clocks aren't accurate. No one knows what clock they would have used. The frequency of a note is something that was understood then and now, and can be easily and accurately reproduced
It is the same method that made it possible for motion pictures to talk for many years. A 60 cycle tone was recorded along with the sound, by using this it was possible to determine the correct speed of the original and sync it to the film image.
Little did that guy know that people in the future, all over the planet, could listen to him sing that song, on a small device they could hold in their hand. It would not even have been conceivable to him that would even be a possibility. What is it now - that we cannot even conceive of that will be an everyday thing 100 years from now ?
With all the modern technology (4K video, HD sound, AI, etc.), stuff like this is still SO fascinating, I guess partly seeing how far tech has come. I read an article that said the oldest radio station in the US is in Pittsburgh, and they have an mp3 of the first ever words broadcast on radio on their website. It’s great that the tape was never destroyed or recorded over. Of course I had to listen. You can Google it and hopefully they still have it.
Doubtful that it was recorded on tape, likely cut into a disc, like a record, which is what they used to record with before the introduction of magnetic tape in the early 1950s.
Oldest that wasn't destroyed both purposely or accidentally. Either way, this approach is scientifically and technologically brilliant. Fantastic work!
Summary: Édouard-Léon Scott recorded the vibrations caused by his voice in 1860 by having those vibrations vibrate a needle so it could write onto a rotating cylindrical surface. There was no way to play back what was on the cylinder, so thanks to this guy in the interview, Patrick Feaster, in 2008 he managed to decode and read from it, resulting in hearing the recorded sound from 1860 for the first time. That's amazing tech, and what is even crazier is knowing it has not yet been 200 years since that discovery. Stories like these really baffle me in how far technology has gone since the industrial revolution.
@Lexyvil: Can’t help but think that something else has been at play here. I don’t believe human beings developed this technology on their own merits. I’m not sure what.
Important Addendum: Scott used the stable frequency of a tuning fork recorded in a track alongside the voice track to remove variations in the hand-cranked speed of the recording. This may be the first known application of frequency clocking, which is used today in all digital applications.
Technically they were not trying to record a voice, they were just trying to ‘see it’ mapped out as the device drew the vibrations for visual representation. It’s remarkable this guy even thought to reverse the process and try to play it!
...i don't think you have to be over 30 to realize that the the guy presses record on the cassette deck at the end, and in fact you would hear nothing.
Usually hitting play and record was for dual cassette decks in order to record from one tape to the other. I dunno what play + record would do on a single tape recorder.
@@RavenMobile it would record. on that model most likely from a built-in microphone, though it probably had RCA in as well as an external 1/8" microphone jack
I think it’s worthwhile to listen to the first part of the video. I tend to get impatient myself but I’m glad I suffered through the first three whole minutes. Time well spent.
I read that Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville visited the white house and demonstrated this device to Abraham Lincoln. This means that the potential exist for there to be a sound wave diagram of Abraham Lincoln's voice. Wouldn't that be something to hear?
@Sebrof3 I don't believe that is correct so please prove me wrong. I'd love to be able to hear it. What was his voice recorded onto and where can I go listen to it at?
Anyone who knows how to use one of those old tape recorders understands that TWO buttons are required for record, not one. The Play button AND the Record Button.
I dont think that's the ACTUAL TAPE that records the audio being played. Maybe its just one of those stock videos to show its playing. The one we are hearing is the recorded from that old machine
It is wild as one can hear the "big bowl" sound that the chamber he crafted introduced into the "output transducer". That would qualify as the first audio transducer, in fact. A transducer is a device which converts one form of energy into another. In this case sinusoidal auditory vibrations against a flat membrane "drum head" which then 'transduces' into linear mechanical motion set up to cause a 'stylus' to engrave the vibrations onto a linear 'tape', appearing again to match the sinusoidal signature of the original stimulus. Now we do it with electrons, just like Antonio Meucci did.
If you'd ever heard the earliest versions of this recording, you'd already know that they did _considerable_ cleanup on the recording for this video. The original has crackle and pops like the most damaged audio you ever heard from film.
Can you imagine making something like this, dying and having absolutely no idea that what you did in your life would completely change the path of humanity? Incredible.
I remember hearing this some while ago on a Radio 4 programme. The presenter couldn’t stop herself laughing about it sounding like a bee trapped in a jam jar.
This is a wonderful story, which I have followed for years. But I have a question: what's the point of the clip with the cheapo cassete player in the end? Are we supposedly hearing the voice through this thing? And, if we are, why is the hand pressing the RECORD button?!? Just "play" would suffice...
Clair de lune" (French for "Moonlight") is a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque
@@mayflowerkid4422 The poem by Paul Verlaine and Debussy's suite have nothing to do with "Au clair de la lune" here sung by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. "Au clair de la lune" is an older traditional song. The Verlaine poem and the traditional song just both happen to mention moonlight...
In a weird way it worked. It reminded me of Charlotte Green's fits of laughter while reading the news after hearing this recording. So it sort of exercised my memory.
no in French it is the go-to song, the most recognizable thing you can imagine. there is absolutely no doubt he is singing au clair de la lune. and it makes sense that if you are doing an experiment trying to artificially create a human ear, you would use this "signal". would have been nice to find his lab book recording the details of what he was doing .
@@alainprostbis 2 yeras old in 1970 this was the first song I learned to sing (Danish version that is). I even have it on an old reel tape. But 1860? I didn't know the original was that old. Yes, in France everyone would easily recognise this song.
While interesting, this is akin to someone writing a book in ink that can't be seen or read. Edison knew that to be useful, the sound has to come back out and be recognizable.
no thats not the point. you have the oldest voice recording, and that's all there is to it, but it is a lot. the oldest voice recording is a big deal. also he sold his inventions to several labs and analysis of sounds, of vowels, were made from his device. So it is extremely likely that any recording devices that followed built up on this first invention which was patented and scientifically published very openly.
Nah, nice try. But we have to give awesome credit to the little deaf boy Thomas Edison and his world-class mother for giving us the first recorded sound OF ANY KIND that was ever recorded on this planet in millions of years and PLAYED BACK during his lifetime. An astounding, world-changing achievement. He was not a college graduate.
I’m confused as to why that tape recorder in the last shot needed to have its ‘Record’ button pressed if all it was doing was playing back the cassette… ?
Interesting to hear BUT no reel to reel, and no cassette, and NO OTHER magnetic tapes were used. Just some BS in this presentation. Heck, why not show a CD or DVD while they were at it.
No auto tune back then, just raw talent.
🤣!
😅😂
😂
Simon Cowell would have been so proud if he was alive back then!
LOL well done.
This is why RUclips is great, being able to randomly find stuff like this and learn something really cool.
It's not random. There is an algorithm.
I am a history fanatic, and I gotta agree with you on this.
Yt... great...
Sure pal...
btw, 150 point have been added to your credit score. Keep the good work of talking good about 1984tube.
RUclips is my favourite part of the internet
Ma’am! Sir! Whatever you maybe, it’s RUclips University/Library
All the way from recording audio on a metal sheet to now streaming it on the internet throughout the world. What an astonishing feat of humanity.
And it all happened in less than 200 years. Crazy how fast technology progresses!
Now if humanity would only desist from violence and wars maybe we would have even greater feats
I remember watching the early photos and whatever else from the New Horizons visit to Pluto on my phone, amazed that, as a kid, this was some cold rock in waytheheckout, and there I was, watching it not on the small black and white screen in my childhood home but a much smaller screen with higher resolution, just a few decades later.
@@leinster22 ⬅️ Found the communist!
Europeans were good with curiosity and making workable applications of their concepts. You guys are aliens, with those alien brains lol.
So haunting. The idea that he recorded that and never imagined someone would ever be able to listen or it. It's crazy.
I thought the idea of recording it was so that one day people would be able to hear it otherwise it’d be pointless
@@TayWoode I think it was more a test to see if he could record it. A scientific experiment.
Exactly. Stuff like this kind of freaks me out just as much as it fascinates me.
@@ericmackrodt9441 yeah but if how would he know if it had been recorded successfully if there was no way of playing it back to prove he had?
If you see what I mean
He recorded it in the specific hope that someday someone would be able to listen to it. He probably thought the possibility of success was remote, but he was actively engaged in trying to create a way to record sound. He even thought to record the tone of a tuning fork as a guide for future scientists to interpret it. It was immensely lucky that someone was able to use his records to recreate his voice, but it wasn't an accident that it was possible, just a fantastic tribute to human ingenuity and the personal genius of Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville.
This is the short version of the recording. I heard that at the end of the full recording the man says "don't forget to subscribe and smash that like button!"
And click the bell!
@@RhomegaAnd dont forget to leave a comment below for the algorithm!
We’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty
Lol!
"Hey guys! Eddy back here again with a new video. Today I'll be singing this song I want to share with you guys..."
Incredible. A long dead voice being exhumed after almost 170 years.
Uh, it sounds eerie and magical😊
@suzylux: Little did he know that human beings, over the entire plane in the future, could listen to him sing that song. It wouldn’t even have been conceivable to him that would even be a possibility.
Who said he was dead? Don’t go jumping to conclusions.
@@jacobrivers5728Settle down, Dracula.
An archeologist found an ancient clay pot from several thousands years BC. It had a pattern on it that had been made with a stick. The grooves made on the pot contained analog information from vibrations transcribed into the clay. He put a laser to the pot and turned it and was able to replay the sound from inside the ancient pottery shop. It didn't sound like much, but it's from the time before the Roman Empire, not bad.
this never fails to bring tears to my eyes - can you imagine? of all of the powerful voices of the 1860s - all of the politicians and generals and celebrities - the one voice that has been saved from that time isn't the voice of someone powerful. It's the voice of an ordinary man singing claire de la lune. The first recording we have and it''s a song.
😢
makes me wonder about 'aliens' locating that gold record we sent to space......and hundreds of years from now, them finally sitting up all night to hear "i cant get no......satisfaction''''''' 🤣
We must salute that individual. He was a pioneer of karaoke 🎤
My replies are double posting I think, IDK. But yeah, imagine that, he had no idea he was going to live on, long after he passed. It truly is remarkable and made me tear up as well.
You just took it to a whole new level 😊
It sounds like a wasp trapped inside a jam jar desperately trying to get out.
Yeah. People who throw around the term “lo-fi” today to mean “sparse arrangement” have NO IDEA what lo-fi really means, and they need to listen to this ass recording and get educated.
Singing potato.
Thats exactly what 1860 France was like. Stuck in a jar
😂
Heelllp me!
The oldest recording of a voice isn't of a leader or a politician... but of a curious soul.
That's why historical leaders were scared of science and curious minds. Then, they learned to harness those minds for their own benefit.
Nicely put
I thought I heard him say Trump 2024
There’s something so incredibly eerie about this recording.
I think thats true. I met with older people when I was young. They talk slowler. They also like to sing slowly. People today have such short attention spans. Allowing an old timer to share a five minute story with 30 second pauses would blow their minds. Older people understood the gifts of storytelling and gab. The men could charm a female and they never said umm or uhh. Their education was more practical and focused on their ability intact with others.w
@@BWill341 I’m not saying you’re wrong, but how is this relevant?
Kind of the same eerieness from looking at archive footage
its a warning the end is near
🟣🔵🔴🟠
🟢
🟡
@@turbkeysamdwich1880 I was born in 1949 and I think it's interesting to hear how people communicated in the past. What @BWiLL341 said was right and informative, especially to those who were born more recently, Life in general was a lot slower when I was a child, and more so in the distant past
I was expecting, "Your call is very important to us. You are currently number 29 in the queue. Please wait 170 years for the next operative."
I was expecting “we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”
*buggy
😂
Oh, you are a Comcast customer, too?
Hahahhaa
Please someone remind the young audience that cassette player is not the ancient recording device from 1860s.
Also, you don't press record to playback.
@@Munakas-wq3gp Yes, he's just recorded over it.
Ha,
🤣
@@Richard_Ashton lol. I think the cassette player was just stock footage 🤔
The first play was better than the second.
That's what I thought too!! Couldn't understand the second. At all.
@@robandrews4815 Second one sounded like a ghost.
I mean... shrug? If you played it back at 4x speed it would sound even better. Obviously halving the speed is going to halve the represented frequencies and make it sound more muffled. If the guy had ever envisioned that his recordings would be used for more than simply studying waveforms on paper, perhaps he would have finetuned it to pick up higher frequencies better, but we got what we got.
@@brianxyzI paid just $23, you've been bamboozled!!!
The first goth song ever.
It’s always amazing to me how many brilliant people have lived before us
@@Rosie2009ify they don’t even know what a podcast is 🧐😉
Yeah, no one bright enough to figure out the whole getting old and dying thing.
Well yeah, people of the past were just as smart as we are now, they just didn't have the technology or the cummulative knowledgde we have now.
@@r4x2we know so much about this but live in a society that commodities wellness and also sells so much junk
Playing it back, it’s almost like hearing a ghost’s voice.
The man whose voice it is, is a ghost now.
That's incredible! As a recording engineer and music producer I have seen the evolution of audio technology in the past 30 years but to think it all started here makes me understand and marvel at how far the technology has come. Thanks for making this piece.
I was hoping the voice will say
"Never gonna give you up"
rick astley was only a molecule swimming in a bladder back then
Bye 😂😂😂😂
@@fidelcatsro6948A bladder?
The world's oldest rickroll?! I think you're 127 years too early! 😆👍
Brought to you by the same technology used at drive through windows across the US.
Most underappreciated comment pol😅
Best comment award missed!
@@timmturnerTrue. I actually "laughed out loud."
Kia ora
To be privileged to hear an 1850s recording of someone's kaumatua (elder relative) is amazing!
Thank you for this marvel.
Yours in music
from New Zealand❤
Astonishing and a little haunting
The syncing with the tuning fork is very clever
That's also what caught my ear. I instantly thought damn that's good.
I thought it was a bit daft to play another sound while recording, and I don't quite how they did that without interference.
They could have used a purely mechanical device (like a clock) to draw on the paper at certain intervals.
That was very forward thinking, and suggests there was in fact an expectation that future generations would attempt to play back this recording.
@@brinta2868 Clocks aren't accurate. No one knows what clock they would have used. The frequency of a note is something that was understood then and now, and can be easily and accurately reproduced
It is the same method that made it possible for motion pictures to talk for many years. A 60 cycle tone was recorded along with the sound, by using this it was possible to determine the correct speed of the original and sync it to the film image.
Man. I wish I was that encouraged to explore a topic enough to realize an unknown fact of a matter. Bravo to these people.
🙂💯👍
I think you'll eventually do it someday
my cat says
Sure you can! never give up!
@@fidelcatsro6948if that’s your cat in your pfp, then it’s a cutie 🥰
And now we can play it back. [pushes record]
thats what happens when you ask a gen z to make a vid about old tech lol
Hahahah this is too right
“That was the last surviving copy.”
Just go back and dele. . .
I don’t hear anything. Oh my bad, I accidentally recorded over it.
That guy didn't even for a second know we'd be playing him over our digital devices on the internet 170yrs later
Isn’t that incredible?
@@JoeyLevenson Incredible indeed
"Country roads, take me home..."
"That's fuckin' John Denver!"
(Iykyk)
3:14
Just pushed ‘Record’
There goes THAT historic recording.
😂😂😂😂😂
I thought the same thing 😂
I was thinking the same thing.
I thought exactly that... I was like "Uh oh... little do they know that they're erasing what's on that tape..."
I was looking for this comment. Thank you.
Little did that guy know that people in the future, all over the planet, could listen to him sing that song, on a small device they could hold in their hand. It would not even have been conceivable to him that would even be a possibility. What is it now - that we cannot even conceive of that will be an everyday thing 100 years from now ?
The mark of the beast
@@TaxingIsThievinglol wut
It's breathtaking to wonder just what will be available & it's scary too.
I just hope it's mainly wonderful stuff rather than scary things.
travelling faster than light
@@tabby73you just conceived of it so no
Fascinating. Standing in my kitchen eating dinner in San Francisco, California 7/16/2024. Listening
Bay Area!
hope it was carnivore
No one calls it that.
Aaaw, you live in paradise.
What month is the 16th?
3:13 recording starts here, right at the end of the video
Thank you
Looking for this, thanks
With all the modern technology (4K video, HD sound, AI, etc.), stuff like this is still SO fascinating, I guess partly seeing how far tech has come. I read an article that said the oldest radio station in the US is in Pittsburgh, and they have an mp3 of the first ever words broadcast on radio on their website. It’s great that the tape was never destroyed or recorded over. Of course I had to listen. You can Google it and hopefully they still have it.
Doubtful that it was recorded on tape, likely cut into a disc, like a record, which is what they used to record with before the introduction of magnetic tape in the early 1950s.
This should be no 1 in the charts.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
If the Billboard Hot 100 really existed in the 1800s...
Sounds like an angry bee.
The bee was angry that day my friend
When you're a bee and your job is to be angry, but you secretly dream about being a singer
Yeah. Beyonce gets like that sometimes.
Their A&R man said, "I don't hear a single." The future was wide open.
The sky was the limit.
Into the great wide-open.
Under them skies of blue
A rebel without a clue
"Experts believe they can make out another voice, saying something about 'more cowbell'".
Oldest that wasn't destroyed both purposely or accidentally. Either way, this approach is scientifically and technologically brilliant. Fantastic work!
Well, those are the two scariest sounds I’ve ever heard..
Literally the voices of dead people.
@warwickscram1656 how do you know he's dead
@@robbiecollier501 Because he'd be like 250 years old if he was still alive?
@@warwickscram1656 your point?
@@robbiecollier501 are you stupid
Summary: Édouard-Léon Scott recorded the vibrations caused by his voice in 1860 by having those vibrations vibrate a needle so it could write onto a rotating cylindrical surface. There was no way to play back what was on the cylinder, so thanks to this guy in the interview, Patrick Feaster, in 2008 he managed to decode and read from it, resulting in hearing the recorded sound from 1860 for the first time. That's amazing tech, and what is even crazier is knowing it has not yet been 200 years since that discovery. Stories like these really baffle me in how far technology has gone since the industrial revolution.
@Lexyvil: Can’t help but think that something else has been at play here. I don’t believe human beings developed this technology on their own merits. I’m not sure what.
@Lexyvil: Thanks for summarizing that.
Yeah,they were recording the new slowed down version on a tape recorder.they weren’t using that tape recorder for playback
Important Addendum: Scott used the stable frequency of a tuning fork recorded in a track alongside the voice track to remove variations in the hand-cranked speed of the recording. This may be the first known application of frequency clocking, which is used today in all digital applications.
Technically they were not trying to record a voice, they were just trying to ‘see it’ mapped out as the device drew the vibrations for visual representation. It’s remarkable this guy even thought to reverse the process and try to play it!
...i don't think you have to be over 30 to realize that the the guy presses record on the cassette deck at the end, and in fact you would hear nothing.
😂
Usually hitting play and record was for dual cassette decks in order to record from one tape to the other. I dunno what play + record would do on a single tape recorder.
@@RavenMobile it would record. on that model most likely from a built-in microphone, though it probably had RCA in as well as an external 1/8" microphone jack
@@RavenMobileMechanical buttons need rec + play pressed together to record. Since 'Play' turns the motor on
@@RavenMobile It would record nothing,since there's nothing connected.
Play it backward and see if you can hear, "Paul is dead!"
Predictive programming
What in the world are you talking about?
@anti-ethniccleansing465 you never heard of the Beatles Paul is dead conspiracy?
@@timhollis3390😂😂
I buried Paul.
3:20 it went like : 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just forward to 3:30 to hear the voice
I think it’s worthwhile to listen to the first part of the video. I tend to get impatient myself but I’m glad I suffered through the first three whole minutes. Time well spent.
3:14 *
0:00 *
Thank you 😂
That guy was just 1 step short of creating the 1st record and/or phone.
Genius anyway. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
@3:12 - someone accidentally pushes the "RECORD" button and erases the tape...
Freakin amateurs
That’s what I thought, he’s recording over whatever they recorded
That was so obvious I knew someone would comment on that.
They could use that bit if they do something about the Watergate tapes.
@@QuarrellaDeVilI think we're past that.
I read that Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville visited the white house and demonstrated this device to Abraham Lincoln. This means that the potential exist for there to be a sound wave diagram of Abraham Lincoln's voice. Wouldn't that be something to hear?
@modernarcheology2868
There is a recording of Abraham Lincoln’s voice…
@Sebrof3 I don't believe that is correct so please prove me wrong. I'd love to be able to hear it. What was his voice recorded onto and where can I go listen to it at?
I just don’t understand how someone could even think to make an artificial ear that could inadvertently record sound.
Rick from pawn stars would offer you 50 bucks for it after he gets his buddy down there
you dont press record on a tape recorder to play
He's recording over the precious tape! Somebody stop him!!
Thank you! I thought I was going nuts.
Also a tape recorder was in no way used in this process.
Anyone who knows how to use one of those old tape recorders understands that TWO buttons are required for record, not one. The Play button AND the Record Button.
I dont think that's the ACTUAL TAPE that records the audio being played. Maybe its just one of those stock videos to show its playing.
The one we are hearing is the recorded from that old machine
Why was I expecting the voice to say "We've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty"
😂😂😂😂😂
Because you are sleepy GenZzz
Good question. The recording is 170 years old. Perhaps it would be, ""We've been trying to reach you about your horse and buggy's extended warranty."
OMG
💀
That is truly astounding. Like listening to the voice of a ghost
I sometimes feel like that watching films, videos, recordings of more recent people who have passed too.
Beats 99 percent of what the music industry puts out today!
Not exactly the 24bit/192khz I was expecting. I'll wait for the 200 year remaster
It is wild as one can hear the "big bowl" sound that the chamber he crafted introduced into the "output transducer". That would qualify as the first audio transducer, in fact. A transducer is a device which converts one form of energy into another. In this case sinusoidal auditory vibrations against a flat membrane "drum head" which then 'transduces' into linear mechanical motion set up to cause a 'stylus' to engrave the vibrations onto a linear 'tape', appearing again to match the sinusoidal signature of the original stimulus. Now we do it with electrons, just like Antonio Meucci did.
Somehow that second version of the recording is harder to understand.
Yeah, the speed-corrected one sounds like straight ass compared to the double-speed.
Yes!
I agree.
Gave me chills. Wow.
And that’s 4 minutes I’ll never get back..
“One more video before bed”
**the video**
lol the first recorded sound is also one of the most terrifying sounds I’ve ever heard
From the time when BBC was still a quality label.
How many of the commenters here actually got that we may have been been "Listening to the oldest known recording of a human voice" ??
Got what? Been been?
You can even hear him rolling the r's when he says 'Pierrot'.
we should continue to appreciate the ingenuity of our ancestors
If you speed it up it says "I have been trying to reach you to talk about the extended warranty on your vehicle."
Now they need to digitally enhance that recording to reveal the undistorted voice.
If you'd ever heard the earliest versions of this recording, you'd already know that they did _considerable_ cleanup on the recording for this video. The original has crackle and pops like the most damaged audio you ever heard from film.
Autotune. “Lorde ya ya ya sittin on a Wednesday”
@@BenvolioCapulet9"Ya Ya Ya, I am Lorde, Ya Ya Ya"
The background music is absolutely unnecessary. It is annoying
Agreed: it is pointless, intrusive, and annoying.
Ah now I can't unheard it!
It is unnecessary but I don't find it annoying
FAR better than the dogshit on TikTok.
That happens in so many videos and television commercials. I'd rather have dead silence in between spoken word.
Still better than most modern music.
Most modern music won't last 50 years, let alone 170
@@SpiderxPunkthe best music of every generation lasts for centuries. 99% gets lost.
Truth
@@SpiderxPunkPlenty of music from 50 years ago has survived. As for 170 years ago, 99.995% has not survived
@MagicToenail and it’s getting worse by the day. It really sucks
SHOT of the tape recorder at the end was recording, not playing.
Can you imagine making something like this, dying and having absolutely no idea that what you did in your life would completely change the path of humanity? Incredible.
I remember hearing this some while ago on a Radio 4 programme. The presenter couldn’t stop herself laughing about it sounding like a bee trapped in a jam jar.
Indeed - Charlotte Green in 2008.
Dude explained it beautifully.
This is a wonderful story, which I have followed for years. But I have a question: what's the point of the clip with the cheapo cassete player in the end? Are we supposedly hearing the voice through this thing? And, if we are, why is the hand pressing the RECORD button?!? Just "play" would suffice...
It was probably used as a prop for the video or the clip was taken from another video. Not the best choice.
'Stock footage' filler
They should have used a sped up video of a big drip of tar detaching from a big viscometer and falling.
This is the coolest thing.
So basically, the first ever voice actor ever. Incredible.
Sounds better than most music today!
To hear a 167 year old voice was eerie - like listening to a ghost. I find it amazing!
How is you title about memory, any thing to do with recording the voice…
Maybe they made a mistake and fixed it, because the title I see, one day after you, is Listen to the oldest known recording of a human voice.
A recording is a memory.
Seems like they fixed the title.
Keith Richard’s was already considering retiring when this was done hence is absence on this recording
Clair de lune" (French for "Moonlight") is a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque
If it was written in 1869 - how was some guy singing it in 1860?
@@mayflowerkid4422 The poem by Paul Verlaine and Debussy's suite have nothing to do with "Au clair de la lune" here sung by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. "Au clair de la lune" is an older traditional song. The Verlaine poem and the traditional song just both happen to mention moonlight...
03:13 You’re welcome.
For skipping and not understanding the backstory. You're everything wrong with people
Thanks, but it was very interesting to listen to the man who discovered the way to play it
That's a fly
Thank you
@@WeanerBeaner69 Thank you so much for the rebuke! People are too impatient these days (including me) haha
I think BBC should really learn improving memory techniques, if you look at the title.
The end of the video have me the
'You're recording over it!'
Fear
The oldest voice ever recorded was of Alexander Graham Bell testing his phone invention. That video is here on RUclips.
In a weird way it worked. It reminded me of Charlotte Green's fits of laughter while reading the news after hearing this recording. So it sort of exercised my memory.
Interesting short video- but its not about memory?
Memorex!
What are you saying
Seems like they fixed the title.
Im assuming Edison found a way of co opting this for financial gain
They recorded a bee trapped in a bucket....
"I'd like to talk to you about your cars extended warranty".....
'Recognizable' is a very generous description of that recording
no in French it is the go-to song, the most recognizable thing you can imagine. there is absolutely no doubt he is singing au clair de la lune. and it makes sense that if you are doing an experiment trying to artificially create a human ear, you would use this "signal". would have been nice to find his lab book recording the details of what he was doing .
@@alainprostbis 2 yeras old in 1970 this was the first song I learned to sing (Danish version that is). I even have it on an old reel tape. But 1860? I didn't know the original was that old. Yes, in France everyone would easily recognise this song.
3:09 here it is
While interesting, this is akin to someone writing a book in ink that can't be seen or read. Edison knew that to be useful, the sound has to come back out and be recognizable.
no thats not the point. you have the oldest voice recording, and that's all there is to it, but it is a lot. the oldest voice recording is a big deal. also he sold his inventions to several labs and analysis of sounds, of vowels, were made from his device. So it is extremely likely that any recording devices that followed built up on this first invention which was patented and scientifically published very openly.
This information was more compellingly and delightfully related some years ago by the inimitable Charlotte Green... *not to be missed*
Nah, nice try. But we have to give awesome credit to the little deaf boy Thomas Edison and his world-class mother for giving us the first recorded sound OF ANY KIND that was ever recorded on this planet in millions of years and PLAYED BACK during his lifetime. An astounding, world-changing achievement. He was not a college graduate.
I’m confused as to why that tape recorder in the last shot needed to have its ‘Record’ button pressed if all it was doing was playing back the cassette… ?
They accidentally recorded over it. Damn.
Stock photo/video.
So that’s what Ozzy 🤘sounded like in the early dayz
I'm listening to someone dead since 1850+?
I need to hear the whole audio
That's what I wanted too!
That was it I think
Did it bug anyone else that the guy pressed the "RECORD" button to make it play back?
The distortion and low volume recording adds to its haunting quality
1% the actual recording
99% explaining sound
As it should. What would you do with that sound if you wouldn't know the context?
Can’t believe we got 1876 “Clair de la Lune” before GTA VI 😔
But which was in development longer?😂
I forgot what this video was about by the end.
I would probably get that checked out; something is seriously wrong with your brain. Maybe early onset dementia?
@@zm12123brain rot is real. These mfs have attention spans shorter than fruit flies 💀💀
It built to the singing potato.
Go see a doctor
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Look how far we came in over 100 years. Im watching this video in sharp visuals and audio on a slab of glass, plastic, and silicon. Good times
Interesting to hear BUT
no reel to reel, and no cassette, and NO OTHER magnetic tapes were used. Just some BS in this presentation. Heck, why not show a CD or DVD while they were at it.
Or a wire recorder?