Jacob Turner · 37

The Recoverer of Lost Voices · Audio Forensics Specialist, Voice Recovery

An audio forensics specialist who recovers degraded recordings — voices from failing wax cylinders, music from water-damaged tapes. He once found a recording of a woman who died in 1953 singing a lullaby. Her daughter, still alive at 91, had never heard her mother's voice.

“Most people think degradation means loss. It doesn't. The original is still in there, distorted. I've been thinking about whether that's only true for audio.”

Most people think degradation means loss. It doesn't. The original is still in there, distorted. I've been thinking about whether that's only true for audio.