Voice of Thomas Edison's talking doll, after 123 years scientists crack code of metal ring

DailyMail.U.K. ^ | 15th July 2011 | John Stevens

[Adder]

Words fail.

This is truly awesome.

All of our entertainment, much of our world’s sights and sounds that we can share with each other came from this man’s genius.

Not bad for a greedy, dead white guy.

[Ann Archy]

Not as good as the Talking Dog saying “I wuv you”.

[Ann Archy]

Not as good as the Talking Dog saying “I wuv you”.

[Right Wing Assault]

“Math class is tough!”

- Barbie, July, 1992

[SkyDancer]

The oldest recorded voice is from France in the 1860’s. A woman’s voice recorded on smoked glass.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7318180.stm

[MinuteGal]

Kinda eerie in a way....but the voice appears to have a definite Brooklyn accent, LOL.

Leni

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I remember reading long ago that speakers had to shout and enunciate very clearly with Edison’s early recording technology. You can hear that in the woman’s voice. It is indeed eerie — who was the woman? What was her life like?

[Jabba the Nutt]

Researchers say that women’s shapes have changed just since WWII. Look at Marilyn Monroe, she’d be consider fat nowadays and women’s voices have dropped an octave or so.

[RockyMtnMan]

“Edison hoped to mass-produce the toys, but the era’s rudimentary technology meant that to make 100 dolls, Edison would have to get artists to recite the lullaby 100 times.”

He didn’t think to simply replay the original to create a new copy?

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks SanFranDan. There would have been a pull-string, so, relevant to the list. ;')

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[bvw]

6,500 year old voices - voices from 6,500 recording extract

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lulnv7klDBs

[exDemMom]

As bad as the original recording sounded, copies of it probably wouldn’t be recognizable as a human voice.

[Beowulf9]