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A Japanese acoustics expert claims to have figured out what Mona Lisa's voice would have sounded like, based on the shape of her skull and an estimation of her overall size, according to this Reuters article.
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 and create a model of her skull.
"Once we have that, we can create a voice very similar to that of the person concerned," Suzuki told Reuters in an interview at his Tokyo office last week. "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.
Dr. Suzuki has posted what he thinks the woman sounded like here, along with his estimation of what Leonardo da Vinci sounded like. (You have to let a 15-second ad run before you can hear her talk.)
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