This Is Alexander Graham Bell's Voice

Plucked from the Smithsonian archives, the liberated recording features Bell, through must and static, saying "Hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell."

[chrislogan]

I love the fact that even in a recording over 130 years old you can still hear his Scottish accent. Makes the heart stir.

[Jezahb]

1:20 seconds of some dude talking about Alexander Graham Bell and just 10 seconds of what we all came here to hear. The entire recording is actually longer, but guess we needed to make room for slate to yammer on about it

[anirudh]

"Hear my Alexander Graham Bell"
THIS VOICE WAS MEANT TO BE HEARD, IT'LL BE HEARD FOR CENTURIES 🔥

[a_single_white_female]

Haha to use a Beats logo to advertise accurate audio reproduction.

[sophiel]

Am I the only one extremely gobsmacked by this? Words cannot describe how amazing this is

[vulture]

If he died in 1922, it's likely that someone who heard his voice is still alive today, and remembers what he sounded like.

[destroymurderkill]

was having the beats logo in the video 2 times truly necessary

[ethanvaughn]

As a history nerd, this is the coolest thing i have ever heard in my entire life

[Pandangus]

so much talking, I came here to hear one voice and it wasn't yours

[rickysahani]

i dont know why... but this sounds scary as fuck

[caby]

Due to the poor quality of the recording (which is completely understandable!) most of the speech sounds robotic, but the way he said Bell sent shivers down my spine. It sounds so human. It seems weird to say but you kind of forget that people back then were just as human as us. Things like this really put it into perspective.

[MattRobb]

Really you don't even mention scotland he was born in edinburgh

[pacisdan]

the audio is shit because of the beats

[mrmillartv]

thats weird he recorded that just in case there would be someone out there in the future who who hear it and now 100 years later we can

[ronwilliams]

He was not English. He was born and grew up in Scotland. Scotland should never be confused as england

[benvasilinda]

It’s good to know that Alexander Graham Bell worked so hard to create the telephone so we could talk long distances just so we could transform that into writing emails and texting and no longer needing to hear each other’s voices. Wow we have come so far, we’re right back to writing stationary again. Thank u sir.

[ghlfzwr]

How ironic that his mother was deaf and he invented the telephone. Makes the story all the more beautiful 💕

[gregpeller]

"This is actually very, very cool to hear the voice of the inventor that developed a piece of technology that we today cannot do hear my voice Mr. Graham Bell from the great beyond: THANK YOU!"

[IronPiedmont]

How do I get my voice to sound like that in Audacity?

[morrisonltop]

england? you mean britain as he was scottish.