were people’s voices different way back when, or is the recording making it sound that way?

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were people’s voices different way back when, or is the recording making it sound that way?

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Answer 1

It’s actually a combination of the two.
Recording fidelity was much lower 100 years ago so voices do tend to sound different, but at the same time people did talk differently. It happens to language over time as speech, the vocal pitch and enunciation, evolve over time.
You can hear that today as younger women these days tend to employ much more vocal fry in their speech than women did 20 years ago.