Dr. Matsumi Suzuki has given the Mona Lisa a voice, sort of. A May 18, 2006 report by TurkishPress.com says:
Cracking “The Da Vinci Code” could have been easier — well, maybe — if the characters had enlisted the Japanese lab which has “recreated” the voices of Leonardo and Mona Lisa. Using methods employed in criminal investigations, the Japan Acoustic Lab says it has analyzed the skeletal structures of the historical figures’ faces to replicate how their voices would have sounded….
Dr. Suzuki is a co-winner of the 2002 Ig Nobel Peace Prize, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device.
His new achievement — allowing Mona to moan and groan and chatter — appears to be involved with promoting the new movie version of The Da Vinci Code.