were people’s voices different way back when, or is the recording making it sound that way?
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It is also worth noting that due to the lower “capture” quality of microphones and speakers, there was the potential for a lot of muffling and loss or mishmash of sounds that could render a voice unintelligible.
Broadcasters and people doing recording would often use accents that adjusted sounds and timing to accommodate those shortcomings of the equipment. This was not entirely universal, but it was common.
And, like film, many older recordings were recorded on analog devices that could sometimes vary a bit in speed even at the time, and when we “lift” the information into modern systems we have to make a bit of adjustment if the modern equipment moves at a slightly different speed; or if older equipment is available but your copy of a device has some slight gearing difference from the one that made the recording due to wear and tear, repairs, etc. in the intervening years.
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