For those of you following Patrick Feaster's work on the earliest sound recordings, you might be interested in his recovery of the voice of Emile Berliner from a picture in a periodical.

There is a news release from Indiana University here
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/22508.html

A summary version on our blog with an audio clip
http://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extracting-audio-from-pictures-summary/

Patrick's description of this project
http://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extracting-audio-from-pictures/


Mike

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Mike Casey
Director of Media Preservation Services
Media Preservation Initiative
Indiana University Bloomington

(812)855-8090

http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/
http://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/