De Gaulle, Joan of Arc or François I: how to reconstruct the great voices of the past?


General de Gaulle in the BBC studios in London in June 1940.

Thanks to artificial intelligence, journalists from Le Monde and IRCAM researchers reconstructed General de Gaulle’s June 18 speech, of which no recording existed. How do we work on the reconstitution of existing voices? And, even more astonishing, how do we manage to reconstitute voices never heard before, like that of François Ier for example?

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And our chronicle ” Elsewhere ” takes us to Madagascar where each month, the media library of theFrench institute invites a researcher for a meeting around a theme. This Saturday, February 18, Souleman Ibrahim Andriamandimbywill talk about Kabary, oratorical art of Malagasy culture. He tells us about the origins and the practice of this ancestral discipline registered on the list of the UNESCO intangible heritage.

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