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History of sound recording started with the invention made by French printer and bookseller Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Being fascinated with the human speech, and written language, he always dreamed about finding more scientific ways to explore this subject.

For this purpose he created phonautograph, the earliest known sound recording device that proved to be instrumental into development of all future sound recording devices.

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Although his work was never intended for playing sounds, the basic design and function of phonautograph was direct inspiration for the Thomas Ada Edison's creation of phonograph, which represented true beginnings of the modern day gramophone.

Ever since his young age, Scott was fascinated with the human language, written or spoken.

He especially focused on the transcribing spoken word into text, and for that purposes he spent a long time perfecting his ability of "shorthand" writing, introducing se