Android with a nice Italian accent

[marcus]

I like how this woman sounds
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoSt...e9ebf6f16d&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L2-RelatedVideo-3

She would not have been speaking modern Italian (as in the sample you get to listen to) because she purports to be a 16th Century tuscan lady.

Voice reconstructed from skull and other skeletal measurements derived from the Mona Lisa painting.

I guess you could call this Applied Physical Anthropology.
I can think of other cases where reconstructing the voice of a person from the past might be fun.

 

[quantumcarl]

I like how this woman sounds
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoSt...e9ebf6f16d&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L2-RelatedVideo-3

She would not have been speaking modern Italian (as in the sample you get to listen to) because she purports to be a 16th Century tuscan lady.

Voice reconstructed from skull and other skeletal measurements derived from the Mona Lisa painting.

I guess you could call this Applied Physical Anthropology.
I can think of other cases where reconstructing the voice of a person from the past might be fun.

This kind of voice reconstruction has also been done with the dimensions found in the remains of a Parasaurolophus dinosaur. Not quite a "Da Vinci subject" but still a relative study!

http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN12-19-97/dinosaur_story.html