Art & Literature Experts have a reconstruction of the voice of Rembrandt van Rijn. That happened on the initiative of ING, the main sponsor of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. With the help of, among others, of Rembrandt’s self-portraits and artificial intelligence, it is his voice alone.
Computerlinguïst Rita Singh occupied himself with the reconstruction progress. As a researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University, she developed all the software to identify individuals by their voice: the software analyzes certain features in the sound of the voice and tries to associated physical characteristics to link, such as size, weight, and age. The reverse, of a seventeenth-century self-portrait to a voice, turned out to be much more difficult, ” she says.
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On the basis of the self-portraits of Rembrandt, they tried first to gezichtsstructuur to reconstruct. “That gezichtsstructuur says a lot about the structure of the skull,” says Singh. With the reconstructed skull could also be the dimensions of certain “boxes” such as the mouth, the nose and the throat become obsolete. That have an impact on how the voice sounds. the
finally, a system on the basis of artificial intelligence used to be the voice to reconstruct on the basis of all the collected physical characteristics.
Lessons
The final product was used in a few online ‘lessons’, in which the master his painting techniques from the cloth does. “I believe that the reconstruction at this point is good enough that someone who would have known, perhaps the war would have been hit,” says Singh. Opinion especially for yourself:
