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From: "Steve Amphlett" <Firstname.Lastname@Where-I-Work.com>
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Subject: Re: how to convert image into sound
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:39:02 +0000 (UTC)
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"Dave Robinson" <dave.robinson@somewhere.biz> wrote in 
message <g0h2u6$m0i$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "David " <dave@bigcompany.com> wrote in message <g0h222
> $1rs$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > kuldeepsingh002@gmail.com wrote in message <d1e933d3-
a8fb-
> > 4310-b30b-61d882bfe0fa@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com>...
> > > hi iam looking for help in how to convert image into 
> > sound. if any
> > > body knows please write me on 
kuldeepsingh002@gmail.com
> > 
> > ask a dolphin??  or do they create images from sound?
> 
> Trouble is sound is essentially a one dimensional time 
> waveform, whereas a monochrome image is two dimensional 
> spatial distribution.
> 
> One solution might be to use stereo sound. Now you can 
get 
> your X axis information in terms of spatial position. 
Your 
> Y information could be encoded as frequency, so that up 
is 
> a higher note, down is a lower note, and finally 
intensity 
> could be simply encoded as loudness.
> 
> I guess if you had a very simple picture the sound 
version 
> of the chief blob might be meaningful. But what listening 
> to the Mona Lisa would sound like - I know not.


I've always been led to believe that you can get 1000 words 
from a picture.  Don't know how though.