Japanese Lab Creates 'Da Vinci' Voices

Mikki writes "Using methods employed in criminal investigations, the Japan Acoustic Lab has analyzed the skeletal structures of Leonardo Da Vinci and Mona Lisa's faces to replicate how their voices would have sounded." While Da Vinci is cool, I can think of a slew of other deceased notables worth talking with as well.

Re:Ergh - yuk.

[jginspace]

2)IE 6 Only.

Huh? TFA opens fine in Opera and IE...

The "(Leonardon) Da Vinci referece = promotion of lame movie" stance I shall ignore.

Re:Fine, but...

[JWSmythe]

I agree.

    Accents change a lot by the way the local accent is spoken.

    Even my own voice, I know depending on where I am, my voice changes. There are a few places that I've spent a good bit of time, so I easily slip into the local accents. There are a few bad fake accents I do too.

    I will say my nice clear broadcaster voice with a midwestern accent (i.e., plain) is a whole lot different than say my southern drawl. And like when I do my totally bogus 80's valley wannabe, it's like TOTally different.

    And lets not forget the voice on my voicemail. A few people have asked why I haven't changed it from the computer synthesized voice. I have to break it to them that it's really my voice. :) It wasn't intentional, it's just a very flat monotone message, because I wasn't very excited about doing a voicemail recording.

Re:Paint and Sound

[$sjfsjf]

Indeed, Archaeoacoustics [chello.se] However this technique has never been used to recover sounds from actual historical pots or paintings. I wonder why not, if their tests have been so sucessful... Maybe it only works if you know what you are supposed to be hearing, 'Here's to my sweet Satan' anyone?

Do you think Leonardo would have read Slashdot?

[iBod]

I think he'd have been very interested indeed in the maiden flight of the Airbus A380 yesterday, which received NO coverage whatsoever on Slashdot (stuff that matters!) and would be pissed off by this lame article about some fools trying to cash-in on his name (stuff that matters not).

Don't call him Da Vinci

[Buchenskjoll]

Please call him Leonardo, only Dan Brown calls him Da Vinci. I don't think Leonardo would have answered to it.

He's last name is not Da Vinci!

[Anonymous Coward]

His name is Leonardo Di Ser Piero (Leonardo, son of Ser Piero), and he's from the town of Vinci (Da Vinci). Calling him Da Vinci is like calling Fred from accounting "From Accounting". Granted, it's no less common a mistake than refering to "silicone chips", and "nucular power".