HISTORICAL VOICES — COLLECTION NOTES 14 October 2026 COLLECTION 169 distinct people, one recording each, spanning 1885–1990. 139 have inline audio sources; 30 link to source listening pages. SELECTION Talking is preferred. Authentic readings and performances are accepted when a documented talking recording has not been identified. Singing is accepted when evidence supports the only-available-voice exception. Types are labelled; AI recreations and impersonations are excluded. Dates are actual recording dates where established, not the date of a speech text, upload or later compilation. Only supported date precision is displayed. LATEST RESEARCH The twenty remaining CSV entries were revisited. Seven were resolved with stronger evidence or replacement recordings; thirteen remain held. The original CSV is unchanged. Full source and portrait credits are in Recording details and recordings.json. NEW ADDITIONS P. T. Barnum — 1890-02-17 — Message to future generations Emile Berliner — 1924-09-03 — Message to his grandson Bobby Frank Julio Cortázar — 1968 — Continuidad de los parques — reading in Paris Jaime Torres Bodet — 1960 — Continuidad — reading from Sonetos Ho Chi Minh — 1960-03-09 — Speech at the Third National Women’s Congress Robert Menzies — 1939-09-03 — Declaration of war — radio broadcast David Lynch — 1990-02-14 — Twin Peaks interview at Monte-Carlo Television Festival REMAINING HOLDS Benjamin Harrison — The alleged recording still lacks reliable authentication, and archive dating conflicts with the submitted 1889 date. William McKinley — The surviving transfer has documented imitation concerns. No authenticated alternative was located. Henry Morton Stanley — A British Library catalogue corroborates a surviving voice recording, but the submitted transfer and date are not securely matched. The supplied 2 May date is questionable. Anton Rubinstein — The restoration source explicitly questions whether Rubinstein is one of the speakers. No alternative authenticated voice was located. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Individual speaker attribution in the group cylinder remains disputed. The historical recording alone does not establish which voice is his. Johannes Brahms — The piano recording is genuine, but the spoken introduction has not been securely identified as Brahms. Grover Cleveland — Authenticity of the alleged voice remains disputed; transfer provenance does not resolve the identity. Dmitry Bogemsky — New discography leads identify several sessions, but no matrix match securely dates the submitted comic performance. Valdiodio N'diaye — The speech and event are identified, but the documentary extract lacks a recording-specific reuse basis or a matched official listening source. Armando Tejada Gómez — An alternative session is documented as recorded in 1965. The estate-linked Google Drive file has no playable preview; a matched free listening source remains unverified. Lillian Russell — The 1912 song is confirmed as her only surviving recording. Its first publication in 1943 complicates reuse, and the official player could not be verified through the access challenge. Luis Batlle Berres Pérez — Official inventories have not been matched to the particular submitted speech file, and original recording rights remain unclear. Adele Moroder — The family archive has dated sessions, but none has been matched securely to the supplied recollection excerpt. LISTENING AND REUSE A free source player is not a licence to reproduce the recording. Where copying rights are unclear or restricted, the gallery links to the source rather than embedding audio. Linked recordings are not used in the guessing game. Archive availability and sound quality vary. Missing portraits are marked honestly. VERIFICATION Metadata, dates, source URLs and reuse fields have been checked. Media endpoints were checked for the new additions; the Berliner and Lynch source players were checked in a browser. These checks are not a complete listening audit or independent forensic authentication. Historical speaker disputes remain on hold. GAME Listen to a random eligible voice, guess in your head and press Reveal the person when ready. There is no timer or answer input. The game waits for the collection to load. Closing it stops playback. NEW ARCHIVE EXPANSION 22 further people added through science oral histories, historic poetry archives and presidential recordings. These additions use free source-player links; permission to reproduce their audio is not implied. One recording per person is preserved. David Bohm — 1979-06-15 — David Bohm’s Interview Eugene Wigner — 1964-12-10 — Eugene Wigner’s Interview (1964) Dorothy McKibbin — 1979-07-20 — Dorothy McKibbin’s Interview (1979) Robert Serber — 1982-01-09 — Robert Serber’s Interview (1982) Carl Djerassi — 1985-07-31 — Oral history interview Stephanie Kwolek — 1986-05-04 — Oral history interview Linus Pauling — 1987-04-06 — Oral history interview Alfred Nier — 1989-04 — Oral history interview — 7–10 April 1989 Amelia Earhart — 1932-05-22 — London speech after her solo Atlantic crossing Rudyard Kipling — 1921 — France — an extract T. S. Eliot — 1933 — Ash Wednesday — Parts I and II Edith Sitwell — 1946 — Still Falls the Rain Roy Fisher — 1959-08-23 — The Intruder Robert Frost — 1933-05-05 — Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Langston Hughes — 1955 — I, Too — reading with spoken introduction W. B. Yeats — 1936-10-11 — On Modern Poetry Muriel Rukeyser — 1959-03-21 — On the role of the poet — discussion with Lee Anderson Harry S. Truman — 1949-01-20 — Inaugural address Dwight D. Eisenhower — 1953-01-20 — First inaugural address Lyndon B. Johnson — 1964-07-02 — Remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act George H. W. Bush — 1989-01-20 — Inaugural address Richard Nixon — 1969-01-20 — First inaugural address RESEARCH ROUTES 1. Search institutional oral-history collections by the interviewee, then verify the original interview date and the actual player. Science History Institute and the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History supplied eight new people. Transcript-only catalogue records are not enough. 2. Use historic poetry collections with session notes. Poetry Archive and PennSound identify recording years and distinguish later sessions or publication dates. Nine new people were added; readings are labelled and talking alternatives are preferred. 3. Fill gaps using government recordings presented by university archives. The Miller Center identifies National Archives sources and dated presidential speeches. Five new people were added as free source-player links. 4. Follow catalogues to alternate original players when a modern page is blocked. Verify the replacement is the same recording and date. Do not bypass security challenges or infer playback from metadata alone. 5. Explore Nobel ceremony archives, broadcasters’ original catalogues and specialist oral-history institutions next. These are candidate discovery routes; a page or transcript alone does not qualify as a verified voice.