Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 36556893
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41598-019-56316-y
- Title of journal
- Scientific Reports
- Article number
- 45000 (2020)
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper prototypes the application of Howard’s Vocal Tract Organ to recreating, for the first time, a vocal sound from a 3,000 year-old Mummy via a 3-D print of the vocal tract based on CT scanning of the Mummy’s vocal apparatus. The work has attracted >350k downloads of the paper and a vast number of worldwide interviews and reports on TV, radio and in printed media. As a direct follow up, the Musée du quai Branly in Paris has requested collaboration for a similar treatment of the remains of the French King, Henri IV.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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