MSU voice library houses words of presidents, stars and more

WKAR Public Media | By Current State

Published January 6, 2014 at 11:25 AM EST

MSU's G. Robert Vincent Voice Library houses over 40,000 hours of spoken word recordings. Voices in the collection range from everyday people to cultural and political figures. Over 100,000 voices are captured in the collection, which includes audio dating back to 1888.

Current State's Peter Whorf spoke with John Shaw, supervisor of the Vincent Voice Library.

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