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UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 28 – Musician Benn Jordan showed a European starling can mimic sounds encoding images, effectively storing about 176 kilobytes of data, demonstrating advanced vocal mimicry.
- Musician Benn Jordan demonstrated storing data in a rescued starling called 'The Mouth' by encoding an image into birdsong and playing it back.
- Jordan pursued this project to explore bird song mimicry and data encoding, noting starlings' unique capacity to reproduce complex sounds including converted images.
- He converted a bird drawing into a sound using a spectral synthesizer, which the starling then emulated, effectively saving about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed data.
- Jordan explained that the bird was able to accurately replicate the sound within the same frequency spectrum it was exposed to, and he estimated that the data transmission rate could approach nearly 2 megabytes per second.
- Despite these findings, Jordan acknowledged many limitations, describing birds as "an awful vector for data transmission" due to unpredictability, but highlighted the demonstration's novelty and potential.
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