I thought we'd had a topic about this, turns out, we hadn't.
Posted on 09/05/2021 1:31:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the nearly 200 years since his mummy’s arrival at the Leeds City Museum in northern England, an ancient Egyptian priest named Nesyamun has slowly but surely revealed his secrets.
Employed as a high-ranking priest and scribe at the Karnak state temple in Thebes, Nesyamun performed rituals filled with both song and speech. Active during the turbulent reign of Ramses XI, who served as Egypt’s pharaoh between 1099 and 1069 B.C., he died in his mid-50s, likely due to a severe allergic reaction, and suffered from ailments including gum disease and heavily worn teeth. And, as evidenced by inscriptions on his coffin, Nesyamun hoped his soul would one day speak to the gods much as he had in life.
A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports fulfills the 3,000-year-old priest’s vision of the afterlife, drawing on CT scans of his surprisingly intact vocal tract to engineer an approximation of his voice. The sound bite, created with a speech synthesizing tool called the Vocal Tract Organ, reconstructs “the sound that would come out of his vocal tract if he was in his coffin and his larynx came to life again,” says study co-author David Howard, a speech scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London, to the New York Times’ Nicholas St. Fleur.
The clip itself is brief and vaguely underwhelming, capturing a single vowel sound media outlets have described as “resembl[ing] a brief groan,” “a bit like a long, exasperated ‘meh’ without the ‘m,’” “a sound caught between the words ‘bed’ and ‘bad,’” and “rather like ‘eeuuughhh.’”
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I thought we'd had a topic about this, turns out, we hadn't.
Ehhh, what’s up doc?
Does he sound like Boris Karloff?
I hope he didn’t say anything as cheesy as, I want my mummy.
No.
But the he still sounds smarter than AOC or Shelia Jackson Lee.
“Bill Clinton, you are the father!”
Eh, not Om?
“Uggggghnnnnn”
Probably not. Given that the mummification process removed the brain, probably more like Ray Bolger...
For whatever reason, that underwhelming “Ehhhh” cracked me up.
“Though she acknowledges the work’s potential, Cooney tells the Times, “When you’re taking a human being and using so much inference about what they looked or sounded like, it can be done with an agenda that you might not even be aware of.””
That last line was interesting. Ehh
“Curse! CUUURRRRRSSSSE!”
“All right, I know, I know, curse!”
/Adult Swim cartoon reference
Should be a meme. Eeeeh
It’s really the voice of Rich Little.
“We wuz kangz”
LOL
It’s already stuck in my head with that wicked backbeat, so...
I watched a movie called Kingdom of War because it is getting ready to leave Amazon. If anyone is from Thailand you might enjoy it.
It was interesting to watch their version of what took place so long ago with one of their heroes.
The movie could have never been made in the USA. PETA would have a fit.
I dont know if the actors had black teeth or they made them have rotten teeth but lots of bad teeth
Sarks?
A possible Uggggghnnnnn thread?
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