Japanese forensics scientist, Matsumi Suzuki who is specializing in acoustic and voice analysis has recreated the voice of Mona Lisa, as well as that of Leonardo da Vinci himself.
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In order to make the recreated voice hear more natural, the scientist's lab hired an native Italian speaker in order to make the errneous intonations for the Mona Lisa's voice which is now hosted on MSN Japan website to the extent as less as possible.Suzuki — a co-winner of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for promoting harmony between species by inventing the Bow-Lingual, a dog-to-human interpretation device — undertook the project as part of activities promoting the Japan release of the movie "The Da Vinci Code."
"Normally, we do crime-related research. We recreate the voices of suspects based on information about their physical characteristics, lifestyles, dialects and so on," Suzuki said.
However, his company, Japan Acoustic Lab, also gets the occasional request to recreate the voices of historical personages, he said, so being asked to unravel the Mona Lisa and Leonardo vocal codes was not an unusual request.
For the Mona Lisa, the laboratory worked with a photograph of the painting to get detailed measurements of her face and hands, Suzuki said. They used this data to then recreate her skull and estimate her height, which they put at 5 feet 6 inches, he said.
The data was then run through the lab's voice simulation programs to recreate the vocal cords and other organs that produced the mystery woman's voice and determine its pitch.
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