You can find out what Mona Lisa would sound like if she could talk by going to this site:
Just click below the Mona Lisa holding the microphone.
How is it possible?
“Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, who generally uses his skills to help with criminal investigations, measured the face and hands of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous 16th century portrait to estimate her height at 168 centimeters (5 feet, 6 inches) and create a model of her skull.
Suzuki told Reuters in an interview at his Tokyo office last week, “Once we have that, we can create a voice very similar to that of the person concerned… We have recreated the voices of a lot of famous people that were very close to the real thing and have been used in film dubbing.”
The chart of any individual’s voice, known as a voice print, is unique to that person and Suzuki says he believes he has achieved 90 percent accuracy in recreating the quality of the enigmatic woman’s speaking tone.
“I am the Mona Lisa. My true identity is shrouded in mystery,” the portrait proclaims on a Web site.”
Why does there have to be a “Mystery?” Why can’t it just be a picture of a woman smiling?
Well, what the heck is she smiling about?
I have to admit that I expected her to speak in English. I was a little shocked that she spoke in Italian. Dumb of me, I know.
I dunno, maybe someone told her to say “cheese.”