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 ------------ 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/