Titantic’s Morse Code Messages Brought to Life by Audio Artist

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RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

The only surviving real-time record of the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago this weekend are the transcriptions of Morse Code messages sent to and from the ship via Marconi Wireless–the most advanced long-distance communication of its time.

On the 100th anniversary of the disaster, an audio artist has used voice synthesis software to bring those messages to life.

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3 comments for “Titantic’s Morse Code Messages Brought to Life by Audio Artist”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1707653504 Anthony Russo

    Garbage! Audio artist? She’s just run the transcripts through Xtranormal! I guess that makes Instagram users photographers! Garbage, I say!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Christianson/1293542216 Andrew Christianson

    The way I see it, the speech program was used instead of real voice actors for a reason: since this is the transcripts of the Morse Code Marconi messages, it is in a very real sense a transcripts of the ships speaking to one another. Since the Marconi was the top of the line technology at the time, it feels more accurate with the programmed voices instead of real-life ones. It’s an eerie effect and I think it suits it perfectly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/carlin.wainscott Carlin Wainscott

    I agree that calling the person who put this together an audio artist is ridiculous.  Note, though, they didn’t even name who the artist is to give credit.