Listen to the oldest known recording of a human voice Adafruit Industries Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! [Video]

Do you think Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville would have cringed at the sound of his own voice had he been able to hear it? Just like most of us do?

Check out this wonderful segment from BBC Global. The recording really is quite moving.

But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857 – 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph.

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