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I stumbled upon this on YouTube,

and then found a article explaining how the recording came about, it is a documentary of how speech was recorded back in 1888, running for 30 minutes or so you can hear Prime Minister William Gladstone, Florence Nightingale, and even Queen Victoria herself! From the article:

‘(this) cylinder was recorded in 1888, at one of the London soirées held by an American Edison employee named George Gouraud. The son of French engineer François Gouraud, who had introduced daguerreotype photography to the United States in the 1830s, he took it upon himself to bring the phonograph to Britain. He did so in a top-down manner, inviting socially distinguished guests to his home for dinner so that they might thrill to the novelty of after-dinner speeches delivered by machine — and then record their own messages to Edison himself.  “I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening’s experiments,” said one of Gouraud’s guests, the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan.

That astonishment aside, Sullivan also admitted that he was “terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.” Many alive today would credit him with considerable prescience on that count'.

it is a fascinating story, so if you have some time on Sunday have a listen to what Victorians really sounded like! the full article is here.