Oldest known recording of human voice recorded

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9 April, 1860

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded the oldest known recording of an audible human voice on his phonautograph on 9th April 1860. The sound clip is 10 seconds long and is of someone singing “Au clair de la lune”, a French folk song.