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This work, as its title suggests, is above all devoted to the recording and processing of the voice. I have tried to aggregate a set of elements that contribute and intertwine in this same field, taking care of the ins and outs.

I remain convinced that in order to understand the techniques and handle certain hardware or software, it is useful to know what surrounds them. Throughout the book, I have often specified the historical context without forgetting the personages to whom we owe these wonderful inventions. They made it possible for us to listen to the voice, whether spoken, whispered, sung or shouted. At the beginning of the 21st century, and for more than 120 years already, this seems so common, so futile, so banal, but what would our ancestors from the past centuries think of it?

Volume 1 of this book, more oriented towards theory and generalities, will begin with a short history of the recording of the spoken and sung voice from the first machines until today, which will be followed by an outline of the mechanisms and specificities that characterize the human voice.