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The vOICe synthetic vision technology has been covered in BBC News, ABC News, Wired News, New Scientist, IEEE Spectrum, The New York Times and other print media, as well as in radio and television broadcasts in many countries. A selection of highlights and (upcoming) key events from the track record of The vOICe is listed below:

February 20, 2026, interview with 2Digital about BCI technologies titled " Will we all become cyborgs?", written by  Lidziya Tarasenka and among other BCI devices featuring The vOICe.

December 23, 2025, Pranav Lal, congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI in India, was featured in a YouTube video titled  "Samarth by Hyundai: Inclusion Through Arts & Media".

• November 13, 2025, received an invitation to join the "Global Bionic Vision Community" on Discord, joined, and for unknown reasons got kicked out, all on the same day. Perhaps not everyone likes noninvasive vision BCIs?

• May 29, 2025, interview with Pranav Lal, congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI in India, in a YouTube video titled  "From Blindness to Cyber Brilliance | Mr. Pranav Lal on The You Turn Podcast".

• February 20, 2024, meeting and catching up with Mike May, discussing the market for visual prostheses (retinal implants, brain implants, sensory substitution) and much more.

• July 25, 2023, Malika Auvray gave a keynote talk at ALIFE 2023 in Sapporo, Japan, titled (YouTube video)  "Hearing tactile interactions, visualizing sounds, touching distances: Current directions in sensory conversion research", in part featuring The vOICe.

• May 18, 2023, invited talk titled  "New directions in sensory substitution" at the Durham UK workshop "New directions in sensory substitution and augmentation".

• January 27, 2022, Michael Proulx of the University of Bath, UK, gave a CogNav seminar titled (YouTube video)  "Human navigation without vision: seeing with our ears and tongues through advances in sensory substitution and augmented reality", featuring The vOICe.

• January 26, 2022, The vOICe was featured in a Lighthouse Guild podcast titled  "Seeing with sound: using audio to activate the brain's visual cortex" with Cal Roberts.

• January 10, 2021, Pranav Lal was interviewed by Juhi Shukla. Available on YouTube as  "'No Time To Regret' says Pranav Lal. 'पछतावे के लिए समय नहीं' प्रणव लाल।".

• January 6, 2021, Pranav Lal's blind photography and use of The vOICe was featured on Turkish TRT World television. Available on YouTube as  "Blind photographer uses sound technology to capture photos".

• December 6, 2020, TEDx presentation by Pranav Lal, blind user of The vOICe vision glasses, at  TEDxICTMumbai, Mumbai, India, on YouTube at  "My continuing tryst with photography - Adventures of a near cyborg and his camera".

• November 29, 2020, blind photographer Pranav Lal was featured on CNN Asia in an article by Tom Page titled  "Blind photographer Pranav Lal captures images using sound", wearing Vuzix Blade smart glasses.

• November 14, 2020, the Open Day 2020 of vOICe vision Africa took place in South Africa and was live-streamed and  recorded on Facebook, including a  pre-recorded video contribution by Peter Meijer.

• September 28, 2020, The vOICe for Android was featured in an ANATAD podcast on  "Exploring The Power Of OCR and Navigational Apps" ( part on The vOICe starting at 31:15 in complete podcast).

• February 18, 2020, Pranav Lal, congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision glasses in India, was featured in the Hindustan Times in a Life & Style article titled  "World Day of Social Justice 2020: The story of 5 amazing individuals".

• February 6, 2020, The vOICe for Android won the Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses app development contest in the Personal category.  Vuzix press release.

• December 26, 2019, interview with Sergei Fleytin, totally blind assistive technology expert, discussing the situation concerning rehabilitation support in Russia - including The vOICe vision glasses and the need for training, in an article on the Russian habr (Хабр) news website titled  "Что нужно незрячему? Обзор слепоглухого эксперта Сергея Флейтина".

• December 3, 2019, in a BBC Radio 4 podcast titled  "InnerVisions", Michael Proulx of the University of Bath explained The vOICe for Android and how it connects a live camera view to inner visions of blind users through sound (starting 14:35 into podcast).

• November 5, 2019, The vOICe technology and training was featured on the Russian habr (Хабр) news website in an article by Ivan Chimbulatov titled  "Звуковое зрение vOICe vision. Взгляд из тьмы".

• October 18, 2019, an interview with Igor Trapeznikov, leader of The vOICe vision team in Russia, appeared on the website of the Russian science television channel naukatv, with an article titled  "Видеть с помощью звука".

• October 14, 2019, The vOICe for Android was featured in an ANATAD podcast on  "OCR packages" ( part on The vOICe starting at 57:50 in complete podcast).

• August 24, 2019, blind biker and user of The vOICe vision glasses Jacob Kruger was featured on the SABC TalkAbility show in  "TalkAbility AD Episode 4: Advances in technology for the visually impaired".

• August 2019, blind user of The vOICe vision glasses Pranav Lal was featured in the August 2019 issue of Success & ABILITY, India's cross-disability magazine, p16:  "No cheese, unfettered creativity" (PDF file), on blind photography.

• July 29, 2019, Russian vOICe Vision trainer Svetlana Lebedeva was featured in a Russian article, on the Rehabilitation Industry of Russia portal, titled  "Клинический психолог Светлана Лебедева рассказала о реабилитации слепых в России" (Clinical psychologist Svetlana Lebedeva tells about the rehabilitation of the blind in Russia). The article was also published on the Russian habr (Хабр) news website in an article titled  "Психология Звукового Зрения. Светлана Лебедева рассказала, как учат людей новому способу восприятия".

• July 19, 2019, Pranav Lal, congenitally blind user of The vOICe, was featured by India Today in a video titled  "Meet Pranav Lal: The photographer who uses sound to capture images".

• July 2, 2019, Russian users of The vOICe were featured on the Russian habr (Хабр) news website in an article titled  "Пионеры новых технологий: Вадим Арцев рассказал, как перестал быть незрячим".

• May 15, 2019, The vOICe and other vision technologies for the blind such as the Argus II retinal implant were featured on the Russian habr (Хабр) news website in an article titled  "Луч света в тёмном царстве: как технологии возвращают утраченное зрение".

• May 12, 2019, the Times Of India featured Pranav Lal and his use of The vOICe in an article by Shobita Dhar titled  "They can't see but they can write codes".

• December 12, 2018, The Quint featured Pranav Lal and his use of The vOICe in an article, with video, titled  "How congenitally blind Pranav Lal captures the world using sound" (video also as  reposted video, and  Hindi video published January 3, 2019).

• November 28, 2018, The vOICe vision glasses were featured nationwide in the Russian morning television program  Утро России with Vadim Artsev and Igor Trapeznikov.

• November 15, 2018, Yana Paulenka and Igor Trapeznikov published a blog article on The vOICe technology titled  "Можно ли видеть с помощью звука" (Can I see with sound).

• October 26, 2018, Russian Radio Vos interview about blind user of The_vOICe smart glasses Vadim Artsev (Вадим Арцев) winning the Neurothlon 2018 DBN cyborg competition, passing the obstacle course without errors and twice as fast as the best Argus II retinal implant recipient, Grigory Ulyanov (Григорий Ульянов),  Выпуск 274. Звуковое зрение (MP3 file) in  «Кухня» «Радио ВОС». With Igor Trapeznikov.

• October 13, 2018, Vadim Artsev (Вадим Арцев), totally blind user of The vOICe vision glasses in Russia, won the  Neurothlon (Нейротлон) 2018 DBN cyborg competition in Samara, Russia. Argus II retinal implant recipient Grigory Ulyanov (Григорий Ульянов, who had also participated in the Neurothlon 2017 in St. Petersburg) ended second place in Neurothlon 2018, while Antonina Zakharchenko (Антонина Захарченко), another blind Argus II recipient, ended last.

• September 12, 2018, the Russian newspaper "Юго-Восточный курьер" (South-East Courier) published an article by Ольга Геранчева titled  "В технополисе «Москва» создали чудо-очки для слепых" (In technopolis "Moscow" created miracle glasses for the blind), outlining the development by the company  NexTouch of "NextVision" smart glasses based on The vOICe technology. NexTouch presented their NextVision glasses at the Rehacare International 2018 exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany.

• September 9, 2018, blind user of The vOICe Brad Barton published an article about his use of The vOICe, titled  "Look mom, no eyes!" How technology is helping those who can’t see.

• August 21, 2018, Invest-Foresight in Russia published an article by Анна Орешкина (Anna Oreshkina) titled  "Российские очки озвучат мир для слепых" (Russian glasses will sound the world for the blind) about the development of "NextVision" smart glasses based on The vOICe technology. The NextVision glasses are being developed by the company  NexTouch. A related article by Anna Oreshkina appeared in English on August 11, 2018, titled  "Audible images - Russian made glasses to describe the world to blind people".

• August 13, 2018, Open Day on The vOICe in Moscow, Russia, with short  YouTube video.

• July 7, 2018: Totally blind user of The vOICe vision glasses Jacob Kruger rides on racetrack in South Africa, here using a novel unreleased color filter to better "see" the grass borders; sighted follower for safety. With  video coverage.

• June 11, 2018, the TEDx presentation by Pranav Lal about blind photography and his use of The vOICe was mentioned in Times Of India in an article titled  "Speakers ignite young minds at TEDx".

• June 10, 2018, TEDx presentation by Pranav Lal, blind user of The vOICe, at  TEDxSayajigunj, Vadodara, Gujarat, India, on YouTube at  How to Build your own Eye! | Pranav Lal | TEDxSayajigunj.

• May 19, 2018, the Russian popular science television channel "Science 2.0" ( "Наука 2.0") featured The vOICe and blind user Vadim Artsev, with accompanying YouTube videos  "Как работает звуковое зрение" and  "Как работает система суррогатного зрения (звуковое зрение)?" (полное видео, Стать киборгом | Большой скачок).

• February 9, 2018, BBC Arabic 4TECH published a video report about use of The vOICe in Russia, with Igor Trapeznikov and blind user Vadim Artsev. The video is available on  YouTube.

• February 6, 2018, Al Arabiya English featured Pranav Lal and his use of The vOICe for Android with VISION-800 smart glasses in a short article titled  India’s blind photographer pushes physical, technological boundaries and an accompanying YouTube video  India's blind photographer pushes boundaries of technology.

• January 11, 2018, BBC News Hindi featured Pranav Lal and his use of The vOICe in an article, with video, titled  "एक नेत्रहीन फ़ोटोग्राफर की आंखों से कैसी दिखती है दुनिया?" (How does the world look through a blind photographer's eyes?), with  YouTube video.

• December 3, 2017, The Indian daily magazine DNA featured Pranav Lal and his use of The vOICe in an article by Heena Khandelwal titled  "World Disability Day: How Sristi KC and Pranav Lal live their dreams".

• October 6, 2017, The vOICe was discussed in an article about Ahmet Ustunel for TRTWorld by Saad Hasan, titled  "A blind man’s quest to paddle across the Bosphorus".

• July 1, 2017, Stuart Lawler of the National Council for the Blind Ireland (NCBI) interviewed Jens Naumann about his former Dobelle brain implant for vision and his current use of The vOICe to "see". The interview starts at 5:35 into the podcast  "Technology Podcast Episode 62: July 2017".

• June 20, 2017, The Atlantic covered The vOICe and other devices in an article by Matthew Hutson titled  "Beyond the Five Senses - Telepathy, echolocation, and the future of perception". The article also appeared in the July/August 2017 print issue.

• May 8, 2017, The New Yorker covered The vOICe and the BrainPort tongue display in an article by Nicola Twilley titled  "Seeing with Your Tongue". The article appeared in the May 15 print edition under the title "Sight Unseen". A little more about Jens Naumann's use of The vOICe was included in  The New Yorker newsletter of May 12, while the New York Times referred to the main article in their May 12 briefing  "12 great stories that have nothing to do with politics". A translation into Spanish of The New Yorker article appeared in the Mexican El Economista under the title  "¿Te gustaría ver con la lengua?".

• March 25, 2017, Pat Fletcher was featured in an article by Adam Piore in WIRED, titled  "Meet the woman who can see with her ears". On March 30 this was followed by an interview with Adam Piore on ABC Radio Sydney, and on April 3 by an interview with Adam Piore and Pat Fletcher on New York Public Radio (WNYC). A translation into Russian of the WIRED article appeared on April 3 as  "Женщина, которая научилась видеть… ушами".

• March, 2017, blind user of The vOICe Pat Fletcher was featured in a new book by  Adam Piore titled  "The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human", in Chapter 4 titled "The woman who can see with her ears".

• January 23, 2017, Pranav Lal's use of The vOICe in blind photography was featured by Dipti Nair on YourStory in an article titled  "He is blind but his photography will leave you speechless".

• January 22, 2017, Pranav Lal gave a TEDx talk about seeing with sound, The vOICe and blind photography at TEDxBITSGoa, on YouTube at  Seeing with Sound | Pranav Lal | TEDxBITSGoa.

• November 25, 2016, Pranav Lal and his photography using The vOICe were featured in an article by Arun Sharma in the Hindustan Times titled  "Visually impaired photographer Pranav Lal's journey of expression".

• November 16, 2016, Pranav Lal and The vOICe were featured in an article by Regina Gurung in the New Indian Express titled  "He hears shapes, clicks it!".

• November 11, 2016, sensory substitution with The vOICe was featured on  BBC Somerset radio in an interview by Ben McGrail with Dave Brown from the University of Bath.

• October 15, 2016, The vOICe was discussed by Mark Humayun, co-inventor of the Argus retinal implant, at AAO2016, the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Chicago,  "Humayun: Restoring ‘Vision’ With Sensory Substitution Devices".

• October 13, 2016, The vOICe was featured by 101 India in an article  "The Blind Photographer | 101 Heartland" with accompanying  YouTube video (and a  shorter video).

• January 11, 2016, The vOICe was covered in the Boston Globe in a Brainiac article by Kevin Hartnett about the BlindTool Android app by Joseph Cohen,  "An app for the blind that describes the world".

• November 23, 2015, The vOICe was discussed on Radio 1 Belgium in the program "Nieuwe Feiten",  "Zien via geluid?".

• November 16, 2015, The vOICe was compared to the Argus II retinal implant from Second Sight in a  FeelGoodTechNews YouTube podcast by Amanda Lacy.

• November 9, 2015, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch version of the New Scientist in an article titled  "Blinden 'zien' dankzij bril die beeld in geluid omzet".

• November 6, 2015, The vOICe sunglasses were featured by Kevin Liever in the YouTube video  Beam Me Up With Sound - Mind Blow #99 (t=99).

• November 6, 2015, The vOICe was featured by the Daily Mail UK in an article by Amanda Williams titled  "Seeing with SOUND: Glasses translate images into different noises to help blind people visualise the world around them".

• November 5, 2015, The vOICe was featured by DefenseTech in an article by Bryant Jordan titled  "Turning image into sound may let blind vets 'see'".

• November 4, 2015, another version of the article  "Smart glasses translate video into sound to help the blind see" appeared in the New Scientist.

• October 30, 2015, The vOICe was featured in the New Scientist, in an article by Olivia Solon titled  "Smart glasses translate video into sound to help the blind see".

• October 26, 2015, Caltech news release about research by Noelle Stiles and Shinsuke Shimojo with The vOICe,  "Seeing Sound", with  YouTube video ("vOICe" Technology Description).

• October 22, 2015, research findings obtained with The vOICe were published in the October 2015 issue of Nature Scientific Reports, in a paper by Noelle Stiles and Shinsuke Shimojo of CalTech titled  "Auditory sensory substitution is intuitive and automatic with texture stimuli".

• October 20, 2015, training findings obtained with The vOICe were published in the October 2015 issue of Nature Scientific Reports, in a paper by Lior Reich and Amir Amedi of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem titled  "'Visual’ parsing can be taught quickly without visual experience during critical periods".

• October 3, 2015, The vOICe was featured in Proto Magazine, a publication of Massachusetts General Hospital, in an article by Tim Gower titled  "Sensory Substitution".

• October 23, 2015, The vOICe will be presented at  TechTrends Expo 2015 in Moscow by Igor Trapeznikov (Игорь Трапезников): проект «vOICE — звуковое зрение».

• September 14, 2015, The vOICe was featured by Olena Markaryan (Helen Marka, Елена Маркарян) in a blog post titled  "Seeing with sound: what hidden abilities do we have?", which is also available in Russian as  "Видеть с помощью звука: о каких скрытых способностях мы даже не догадываемся?".

• September 7, 2015, The vOICe was featured by the Russian GeekTimes in an article titled  "Звуковое зрение vOICe – в шаге от прорыва" ("Audio sight with The vOICe - on the verge of a breakthrough").

• August 19, 2015, The vOICe was discussed on the Russian Internet radio station for the visually impaired, Radio VOS, in the talk show  Tiflochas ( «Тифлочас»: Выпуск 135. vOICe: суррогатное зрение для слепых?, starting at 9:15 into the show).

• August 12, 2015, The vOICe was featured in the New Scientist in an article by Sandrine Ceurstemont titled  "Substituting senses lets blind people take sonic holiday snaps", with Michael Proulx and Pranav Lal. A shortened version later appeared on  August 26.

• August 4, 2015, the Russian BoomStarter campaign for The vOICe,  "The vOICe – звуковое зрение", successfully reached its fundraising target at 105%.

• August 4, 2015, The vOICe was featured by the Russian GeekTimes in an article titled  "Краудфандинг технологии звукового зрения vOICe — для слепых и не только".

• July 2015, the Russian  "Transhuman" organization started a fundraising campaign for The vOICe on BoomStarter (Crowdfunding LLC, RU),  "The vOICe – звуковое зрение" ( Facebook).

• June 2015, The vOICe was featured by Joanna Zieniuk in the Polish magazine Kontrast, in an article titled  "Quasi-wizja nadzieją dla niewidomych".

• June 10, 2015, The vOICe and David Eagleman's VEST were featured in an article by Luke Robert Mason for Motherboard, VICE Media, LLC titled  "Rewiring the Brain to Create New Senses". Dutch translation  "Iedereen kan binnenkort een nieuw zintuig erbij krijgen".

• May 23, 2015, research by Giles Hamilton-Fletcher and Jamie Ward of the University of Sussex with The vOICe and the Microsoft Kinect was featured by "BBC Click" ( YouTube).

• March 18, 2015, research by the group of Amir Amedi at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem using The vOICe was featured in a EURETINA Brief  "Congenitally blind patients reading 'through sound' show activation of visual cortex in the brain including response to colour".

• February 21, 2015, The vOICe was featured by Brain Blogger in a blog article by Sara Adaes titled  "Hearing red - Sensory substitution with your smartphone".

• January 29, 2015, The vOICe was featured by the Beacon in an article by Jenna Owsianik titled  "Counting down to the end of blindness".

• January 24, 2015, The vOICe was featured by Radio New Zealand, with an interview in the program "This Way Up" by Simon Morton and Richard Scott, in a segment titled  "Seeing with Sound".

• January 7, 2015, The vOICe was featured by The Conversation in an article by Dave Brown and Michael Proulx titled  "Camera, mobile, headphones: the low-cost set up that can help blind people 'see'" (republished).

• December 20, 2014, The vOICe was featured by BBC Radio Bristol, with an interview in the Phil Hammond show with David Brown of the University of Bath.

• December 19, 2014, The vOICe was featured by  Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) in an interview with David Brown of the University of Bath.

• December 15, 2014, The vOICe and research by Michael Proulx and David Brown at the University of Bath was featured by BBC Points West television in a lunchtime bulletin titled  "Helping the blind to 'see' using The vOICe" and in a  BBC Points West evening bulletin. It was also featured by  BBC Radio Bristol.

• December 12, 2014, The vOICe and research by Michael Proulx and David Brown was featured by the University of Bath in a news release titled  "Clearer future for blind thanks to vOICe device".

• December 8, 2014, The vOICe and research by Michael Proulx and David Brown at the University of Bath was featured by BBC Radio 4.

• December 7, 2014, The Guardian / The Observer featured The vOICe and Michael Proulx's research based on The vOICe at the University of Bath, UK, in an article by Jamie Doward titled  "vOICe: the soundscape headsets that allow blind people to 'see' the world". In print on page 9, titled "It was dismissed as sci-fi. Now soundscape headset is allowing blind people to `see'".

• November 30, 2014, Pranav Lal and The vOICe were featured in the Mumbai Mirror in an article by Gitanjali Chandrasekharan titled  "Techtonic shift". The article also appeared in the Bangalore Mirror and Pune Mirror.

• November 21, 2014, The vOICe were mentioned by Vox in an article by Susannah Locke titled  "We're getting closer to a cure for blindness".

• September 10, 2014, the work by Michael Proulx with The vOICe at Bath University was featured on Welsh S4C television ( MP4 video excerpt).

• June 18, 2014, Pranav Lal and The vOICe were featured by Sennheiser in  "Pranav Lal has MOMENTUM".

• June 3, 2014, Research by Ella Striem-Amit and Amir Amedi based on use of The vOICe was featured in an article by Greg Miller in Wired titled  "What happens in the brain when blind people learn to see with sound".

• April 28, 2014, The vOICe was featured in the Discover Magazine blog "The Crux" in an article by Dana Smith titled  "Blind Sight: The next generation of sensory substitution technology".

• April 16, 2014, The vOICe was featured in the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung in an article by Silvia von der Weiden titled  "Hoffnung für Blinde: Sehen mit der Hörbrille".

• March 11, 2014, invited lecture on The vOICe vision technology at the  Art of Neuroscience symposium of the The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, at the Eye Film institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands ( slides).

• March 7, 2014, The vOICe was featured in the Daily Mail UK in an article by Victoria Woollaston titled  "Turn your mobile into an EYEphone: App lets blind people 'see' their surroundings by converting photos into SOUND".

• March 6, 2014, The vOICe was featured in Science Magazine in a news article by Thomas Sumner titled  "Computer program allows the blind to 'see' with sound".

• March 6, 2014, The vOICe was featured in Wired News an article by Greg Miller titled  "What happens in the brain when blind people learn to see with sound".

• March 6, 2014, The vOICe and research by Ella Striem-Amit and Amir Amedi was featured in an article in The Conversation by Madeleine Martiniello titled  "Blind people can 'see' bodies with sound: study".

• February 25, 2014, blind user of The vOICe Pranav Lal on German WDR television in the popular science program "Quarks & Caspers", with presenter Ralph Caspers.

• October 31, 2013, invited presentation on The vOICe at Asia-ARVO 2013 in New Delhi, India. Aparna Gupta presented there on behalf of Peter Meijer ( slides).

• October 23, 2013, The vOICe was featured on the Russian Internet radio station for the visually impaired, Radio VOS, in the talk show  Tiflochas ( Тифлочас № 41. vOICe, или зрение на слух).

• October 14, 2013, Michael Proulx's research based on The vOICe at the University of Bath, UK, was featured on Reuters TV, in a clip titled  "'vOICe' helps the blind 'see' with their ears" (video also on  YouTube).

• October 8, 2013, Michael Proulx's and David Brown's research based on The vOICe at the University of Bath, UK, was featured in a television broadcast on Manoto1's  Tech Show (in Farsi, as Manoto 1 is the largest Persian-language channel).

• July 15, 2013, The vOICe was featured on the German news website Heise Online in an article by Florian Rötzer titled  "Durch Hören sehen".

• July 12, 2013, The vOICe and research based on The vOICe at the University of Bath were featured on Revision3 Internet TV by Annie Gaus in a video titled  "The vOICe Lets The Blind See with SOUND!".

• July 11, 2013, The vOICe was featured on Dutch BNR Nieuwsradio by Herbert Blankesteijn.

• July 9, 2013, Michael Proulx's research based on The vOICe at the University of Bath, UK, was featured in TIME, in an article by Matt Peckham titled  "This device could help the blind see images with their ears". On July 10, 2013, the same topic was featured in Popular Science in an article by Joey Carmichael titled  "Device trains blind people to 'see' by listening".

• May 15, 2013, The vOICe was featured on BBC One in  The One Show (AKA "BBC One Show"), 7pm UK time, with  Michael Proulx, Dave Brown, Claire Cheskin and  Peter White.

• April 5, 2013, The vOICe featured on  The Pod Delusion, Episode 181, and The Pod Delusion Extra.

• March 29, 2013, The vOICe was demonstrated by Michael Proulx of the University of Bath in "Can you hack it", on bodyhacking to enhance the senses, at the Edinburgh Science Festival in Edinburgh, UK.

• March 28, 2013, The vOICe was demonstrated by Michael Proulx of the University of Bath at the  Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference at the British Academy in London, UK.

• March 21, 2013, The vOICe for Android was featured in an article by J. Angelo Racoma on Android Authority titled  "The blind can now 'see' with Google Glass".

• March 20, 2013, The vOICe for Android was featured in an article by Russell Holly on geek.com titled  "App developer hopes to use Google Glass to help the blind see".

• February, 2013, The vOICe was featured in a Science Brief article by Michael Proulx for the American Psychological Association (APA). The article is titled  "Blindness: remapping the brain and the restoration of vision".

• February 6, 2013, The vOICe for Android was featured by Paul Warner of VICT Consultancy in his podcast  "Understanding The vOICe for Android".

• November 2012, The vOICe was featured in the November edition of Nature NeuroPod,  Seeing with your ears with contributions by Michael Proulx and Amir Amedi.

• November 10, 2012, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch national newspaper "NRC Handelsblad", in an article by Sander Voormolen titled  "Letters van geluid" (PDF file, digital edition, Wetenschap p. 7, access requires a paid subscription).

• November 7, 2012, a research paper in Neuron by Ella Striem-Amit from the group of Amir Amedi at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and based on use of The vOICe was covered by the New Scientist in a blog article  "Camera-to-sound app lets blind people 'see'". The Neuron paper is  "Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind".

• October 29, 2012, an article on blind photography with accompanying video where blind user Pranav Lal from India wears The vOICe with wide-angle camera glasses appeared on  CNN-IBN ("Mumbai photographer gives the visually impaired a chance to click", by Jagriti Chandra, about a workshop by Partho Bhowmick). A corresponding video report was broadcast on CNN-IBN in the series  "India Positive" on November 3 and 4, 2012.

• October 17, 2012, invited lecture on The vOICe vision technology at the conference  "CONGres 2012: Sounds in Science", at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The lecture was titled  "Visual soundscapes from your augmented reality glasses".

• September 30, 2012, The vOICe was featured in a 19-minute podcast titled  "Oh, I see!", produced by Ed Prosser for Pod Academy, with interview contributions by Pat Fletcher and Michael Proulx.

• September, 2012, The vOICe was featured in the September edition of NCBI's ( National Council for the Blind of Ireland)  technology podcast with contributions by John Peacocke and Pranav Lal. The part about The vOICe starts 12 minutes into the podcast.

• August 31, 2012, preliminary research findings obtained with The vOICe were presented by Shinsuke Shimojo of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) at the International Summer Program 2012 (ISP2012), August 27-31 2012, Tokyo, Japan. His talk is titled  "Sensory substitution, crossmodal plasticity, and the third kind of "qualia"".

• August 27, 2012, an interview about the development of The vOICe was published on the Android Dev 101 blog as part of their "Ask a Developer Series".

• June 30, 2012, The vOICe was demonstrated by Jamie Ward of the University of Sussex at the State of Mind Expo in Brighton, UK, just before the ASSC16 conference.

• June 16, 2012, blind users Brian Shaw and Pranav Lal gave an extensive  interactive presentation (streaming MP3) on The vOICe at the  Cisco Academy for the Vision Impaired (CAVI).

• June 15, 2012, The vOICe for Android was mentioned in The Huffington Post in an article by Sara Gates titled  "Navigation Glasses For The Blind Help Visually Impaired See Through Sound".

• May 13, 2012, research findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the Vision Sciences Society 12th Annual Meeting (VSS 2012), May 11-16 2012, Naples, Florida, in a poster by Noelle Stiles, Vikram Chib and Shinsuke Shimojo of California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The poster was titled "Behavioral and fMRI Measures of "Visual" Processing with a Sensory Substitution Device".

• May 4, 2012, The vOICe was featured on Swiss SRF television in the news program "10vor10", with blind user Pranav Lal from India demonstrating a mobile setup with camera glasses. Article  "Blinde können mit den Ohren «sehen»" (video  "Mit den Ohren sehen").

• April 22, 2012, The vOICe demonstrated by Amedi Multisensory Lab at the Think Next 2012 Demo Fest in Tel Aviv, Israel, an event organized by Microsoft R&D Israel.

• April 15, 2012, research findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the UK Synaesthesia Association Conference (UKSA 2012), April 14-15 2012 at the University of Oxford, UK, by David Brown and Michael Proulx of Queen Mary University of London, in a talk titled "Look ear! Learning to use a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device".

• April 6, 2012, The vOICe for Android was referred to in a blog article of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) in the context of the Foundation's San Francisco Dining in the Dark Visionary Awards Dinner that was attended by Google co-founder Sergey Brin wearing a Project Glass prototype. The article by Steve Rose is titled  "We've Been Googled".

• April 3, 2012, research findings obtained with The vOICe presented at the 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (CNS 2012), Chicago, USA, March 31 - April 3, 2012, in a poster presentation by David Brown of Queen Mary University of London, titled "Generalization of perceptual learning using a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device".

• March 16, 2012, scientific findings on "visual" acuity obtained with The vOICe were published in the March 2012 issue of PLoS ONE (Volume 7 | Issue 3 | e33136), in a paper by Ella Striem-Amit, Miriam Guendelman and Amir Amedi, titled  "'Visual' Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution".

• March 4, 2012, the BBC Horizon episode "What Makes a Genius?" featuring Claire and The vOICe was broadcast on Dutch national television in the NTR-series Focus, "Hoe word je een genie?" (Nederland 2, 19:00).

• February 22, 2012, The vOICe and the research by Amir Amedi were featured by Jewish News One (JN1), with a video showing The vOICe homepage.

• February 13, 2012, Amir Amedi's research based on The vOICe at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, was featured in the Daily Mail UK, in an article by Damien Gayle titled  "Real-life science closes in on Star Trek as scientists show they can to hack into blind people's visual cortex to let them 'see'".

• January 2012, The vOICe and pioneer user Pat Fletcher were featured in  ACB's Braille Forum of January 2012 in an article by Ken O'Sullivan titled  "The pathway to sight". You can listen to a trimmed streaming MP3 version of the spoken version of this Braille Forum issue.

• November 30, 2011, The vOICe for Android was featured in a technology news article in the EFY Times from India, titled "Meet 9 Innovative Android-powered Tech Gadgets", by Amit Shrivastava.

• November 23, 2011, MP3 audio podcast of an interview with Peter Meijer about The vOICe for Android and augmented reality for the blind on  That Android Show Episode 3, with hosts Access Ana, J.J. Meddaugh and Joe Steinkamp.

• November 20, 2011, The vOICe was featured on German ARD television in the popular science program "W wie Wissen", with blind user Pranav Lal from India demonstrating a mobile setup with camera glasses. "Mit den Ohren sehen - die Hörbrille" (video now on  Das Erste - Mediathek).

• August 22, 2011, invited presentation Camera-based sensory substitution and augmented reality for the blind at co-located  ACIVS 2011 (Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems), August 22-25, 2011, and  ICDSC 2011 (5th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras), August 23-26, 2011, Ghent, Belgium.

• August 5 and 6, 2011, Michael Proulx of the Queen Mary University of London presents and demonstrates The vOICe at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA 2011) in Washington, in a Science Showcase titled  "Seeing with your ears? Sensory substitution with The vOICe".

• August 4, 2011, The vOICe was featured on Kennislink with a Dutch article by Marije Nieuwenhuizen titled  "Kijken met je oren".

• August 3, 2011, The vOICe won the $3,000 best demo prize of the American Psychological Association (APA), with Michael Proulx' Science Showcase, as mentioned in the APA press release  "Science showcase presents psychology's 'hands-on' benefits".

• August 3, 2011, The vOICe was featured in Discovery News with an article by Eric Niiler titled  "Device lets you see with your ears". Also featured on MSNBC with an article titled  "See with your ears? They like the sounds of that". A derived article titled  "Amazing device allows the blind to see with their ears" appeared in ZME Science.

• June 29, 2011, The vOICe was featured in an "Eyes on the Brain" blog article in Psychology Today, titled  "A Device to Help the Blind See", and written by Susan R. Barry ("Stereo Sue").

• June 21-23, 2011, The vOICe and the "Virtual Cane" were demonstrated to Israeli president Shimon Peres by Amir Amedi at the Presidential Conference 2011 in Jerusalem. Video fragment available on  YouTube.

• June 10, 2011, The vOICe was featured on YOUR HEALTH radio as part of the program  "Seeing with your ears with Dr. Amir Amedi". An MP3 file (39 MB) of the broadcast on WCHL 1360 AM radio is available for download. The relevant part starts at 7:43, or you can listen to a trimmed streaming MP3 version.

• April 2011, The vOICe for Android was featured in a cover story in CSI Communications (Computer Society of India) by Gary S. Tyson and Ann Ford Tyson of Florida State University. The article was titled "Medical applications for Android powered mobile systems" (PDF file).

• April 7, 2011,  Peter Meijer (seeingwithsound on Twitter) listed among the  The 25 Most Influential People Tweeting About Augmented Reality.

• April 1, 2011, blind users Brian Shaw and Pranav Lal gave an introduction to The vOICe in a live  audio chat (streaming MP3) for the  Cisco Academy for the Vision Impaired (CAVI).

• March 14, 2011, The vOICe was demonstrated by Amir Amedi to members of Israel's Knesset Science and Technology Committee. Video available on  YouTube.

• March 6, 2011, The vOICe was featured on Israel Channel 1 television as part of the program "Ha'Ma'bada" (The Lab) with Amir Amedi discussing the finding at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that brain areas responsible for visual reading do not depend on visual input. Video available on  YouTube.

• January 23, 2011, the  Times Of India Mumbai featured The vOICe and Pranav Lal, one of its users in India, in an article by Mahafreed Irani about technology for the blind in India.

• January 16, 2011, the Hindustan Times featured Pranav Lal, one of the users of The vOICe in India, in an article by Shara Ashraf titled  "A lensman's insight".

• January 6, 2011, The vOICe was featured in Kings County News with an article on artificial vision by Beth Irvine titled  "Eye spy".

• January 5, 2011, The vOICe was featured in celebreating the 100th episode of World Science with podcast 100, co-produced by BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and WGBH. The 3-minute part about seeing with sound starts 12 minutes and 45 seconds into the podcast.

• December 2010, The vOICe for Android was discussed in AFB AccessWorld in an article by J.J. Meddaugh titled  "Independent Travel Issues - Android GPS Evaluation" ("VOIC").

• November 27, 2010, Amir Amedi, Ella Striem-Amit and Lior Reich of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discussed recent neuroscientific findings in use of The vOICe in the Australian ABC Radio National program "The Science Show", in a broadcast presented by Robyn Williams and titled  "Training the blind to see". Amir Amedi: "the brain is a task machine, and not a sensory machine".

• November 24, 2010, Michael Proulx of Queen Mary University London was interviewed about The vOICe by Ed Prosser for the radio show "Short Science" in  "Sounds of Science".

• November, 2010, The vOICe and retinal implant technology were discussed in the November 2010 issue of  Casey's Extraordinary Technology (PDF file), a market analysis newsletter for the technology sector, chapter "R&D - Robotics, Part II", section "Restoring Light and Sound", pages 16-19.

• November, 2010, Pranav Lal's use of The vOICe was mentioned in the November 2010 issue of Go-Getter, the in-flight magazine of GoAir, in an article about photography by Chryselle D'Silva Dias titled "Trigger happy", p. 26.

• November 7, 2010, the NSF-funded evaluation study with The vOICe by Luis Goncalves and Enrico Di Bernardo of MetaModal LLC was featured in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star News, Whittier Daily News and San Jose Mercury News with an article by Beige Luciano-Adams titled  "Two Pasadena researchers seek integrated system to help the blind 'see'".

• November 2, 2010, invited presentation about The vOICe at the entrepreneurs club in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

• October 23, 2010, at the CAOMS 2010 conference of the California Association of Orientation and Mobility Specialists, Riverside, California, a presentation on training with The vOICe was given by Enrico Di Bernardo and Luis Goncalves of MetaModal LLC.

  

• October 2, 2010, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch financial newspaper "Het Financieele Dagblad", in an article by Lien van der Leij titled  "Horen, zien en geloven", ( PDF version may require a paid subscription).

• September 16, 2010, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch magazine Intermediair in an article by Chris Spranger and Bruno van Wayenburg titled "Kijk uit je oren!" (no longer online).

• August 30, 2010, The vOICe was discussed in relation to synesthesia in the h+ Magazine article by Alex McKeown titled  "From Sight to Synesthesia: What Happens when the Senses can be Rewired?".

• August 25, 2010, The vOICe was featured by Elsa Youngsteadt in podcast 81 of  World Science, co-produced by BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and WGBH. The 3-minute part about seeing with sound starts 15 minutes and 12 seconds into the podcast.

• August 24, 2010, The vOICe was featured on Singularity Hub in an article by Drew Halley titled  "The vOICe System Rewires the Brain's Audio into Visual".

• August 22, 2010, The vOICe was mentioned in in the Times of India, with blind user Pranav Lal in an article about blind photography titled  "Shoot without sight", by Joeanna Rebello Fernandes (Times Features, Sunday Times of India, Mumbai, August 22, 2010, page 4,  newspaper view).

• August 2010, The vOICe was featured on Sein.de in an article titled  "Flexibles Gehirn: Menschen können mit den Ohren sehen".

• August 11, 2010, The vOICe was featured in the New Scientist with an article by Bijal Trivedi titled  "Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound" (a new device that restores a form of sight to the blind is turning our understanding of the senses upside down). The article appeared on the New Scientist homepage on August 17, 2010. New Scientist August 14 2010 print edition, "Ear today, eye tomorrow" / "Sensory switch-over" /  "See hear: when ears become eyes", Volume 207, Issue 2773, pp. 42-45. Also on  YouTube.

• July 5, 2010, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 7th Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS Forum 2010) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 3-7, 2010, in a poster by Eva Ludowig, Tessa van Leeuwen, Rolf Kötter and Petra Stoerig. The poster title is  "Crossmodal plasticity in synthetic synaesthesia". The research was performed at Research Center Jülich, Germany, University Düsseldorf, Germany and Radboud University Nijmegen (Donders Institute), The Netherlands.

• June 9-10, 2010, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2010) in Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10, 2010, in a poster presentation by Jung-Kyong Kim and Robert Zatorre titled "Auditory-tactile shape learning engages the lateral occipital complex".

• April 18, 2010, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 17th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (CNS 2010) in Montreal, Canada, April 17-20, 2010, in a poster presentation by Jung-Kyong Kim and Robert Zatorre titled "Lateral occipital complex: A site for supramodal shape representation as revealed by sensory substitution learning".

• March 25, 2010, The vOICe was covered in the UK newspaper The Independent, in an online article titled  "Augmented Reality smartphone application helps visually impaired, elderly to see".

• February 26, 2010, The vOICe for Android was demonstrated on a Motorola Droid as part of the R-TEAM Robotics club participation in the 2010 Science Fair at the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind (ASDB), in Tucson.

  

• February 17, 2010, Claire, a blind user of The vOICe, was featured in the BBC Horizon science program, looking out of a car window with her Nokia phone in the episode  "What Makes a Genius?" with Marcus Du Sautoy, BBC 2 television, February 17, 9pm GMT. Rebroadcast on Monday February 22, 2010, BBC 1, 00:50 (except Northern Ireland), and Saturday February 27, 2010, BBC 1, 00:35 (only Northern Ireland). Section on The vOICe at  DailyMotion.

• December 16, 2009, The vOICe was covered in the UK newspaper The Independent, in an online article by Mary Harboe titled  "Blind in business: Cutting-edge seeing aids".

• December 1, 2009, findings obtained with users of The vOICe were published in Consciousness and Cognition, in a paper by Jamie Ward and Peter Meijer titled "Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device" ( DOI).

• October 17, 2009, invited presentation on sensory substitution and The vOICe at the third biennial  Art Beyond Sight Multi-Modal Approaches to Learning Conference, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, October 16-17, 2009. Session: Technology and the senses, presentation title: The vOICe: Augmented Reality for the Blind. Other speakers in the session were Steven Landau, Joshua Miele, Jaime Sanchez and Sean White.

• October 17, 2009, Blind users Pranav Lal and Brian Shaw discussed The vOICe in a live  audio chat (streaming MP3) in an online Blindsea Conference Room, October 17, 2009, 17:00-18:40 GMT/UTC.

• October 15, 2009, Amir Amedi's research based on The vOICe at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, was featured in The Jerusalem Post, in an article by Karin Kloosterman titled "Opening a new channel" (reprinted from an August 13, 2009 article on  ISRAEL21c).

• August 26, 2009, Amir Amedi's research based on The vOICe at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, was featured in the Jewish Tribune in Canada, in an article by Karin Kloosterman titled "Teaching the blind to see through sound" (reprinted from an August 13, 2009 article on  ISRAEL21c; Peter Meijer's name misspelled as Peter Mejeri).

• July 17, 2009, Wired News covered The vOICe in their Gadget Lab article  "Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision", by Brian X. Chen. On July 22 the story also appeared in Japanese on  Gizmodo Japan (盲目のフォトグラファー), and on July 23 on Wired Vision Japan (視覚障害の写真家たちと、撮影を可能にした諸技術).

• July 2, 2009, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2009), New York, USA, June 29 - July 2, 2009, in a poster presentation by Ella Striem, Ornella Dakwar and Amir Amedi titled  "Highly transient neuroplasticity following one session of learning to use a sensory substitution device: an fMRI study".

• June 27, 2009, The vOICe was demonstrated by Tali Walmer and others at the  Helen Keller Day in Second Life ( SLURL, props may have been removed), using the 3D virtual environment sonification features of The vOICe, as also explored by Louise Later. Both Tali Walmer and Louise Later (Louise Nicholson) have low vision in real life.

• June 21, 2009, YouTube video about research based on The vOICe at the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,  "Sight Through Sound: The Hebrew University is teaching blind people to see through sound". Here Amir Amedi's group trained ten congenitally blind individuals to read short words and recognize and find objects. The research was also covered on Israel's  Channel 10. (YouTube video, spoken in Hebrew/Ivrit).

• June 6, 2009, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC-13) in Berlin, Germany, June 5-8, 2009, in a poster by Petra Stoerig, Michael Proulx and Tessa van Leeuwen. The poster title is  "Object Recognition Through Image-to-Sound-Based Sensory Substitution of Sight" (PDF file).

• May 16, 2009, Open, a weekly magazine in India, featured Pranav Lal, one of the users of The vOICe in India, in an article titled  "Seers of the Computer Age" that included a description of The vOICe.

• April 3, 2009, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe discussed in the Paul Bach-y-Rita Memorial Lecture by Alvaro Pascual-Leone titled  "Learning about Seeing from the Blind" (about 46 minutes into the talk), at the University of Wisconsin. Also available on  YouTube.

• January 2009, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were published in Neuroreport, in a paper by Lotfi B. Merabet, Lorella Battelli, Souzana Obretenova, Sara Maguire, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "Functional recruitment of visual cortex for sound encoded object identification in the blind".

• November 29, 2008, South Delphi Plus Digital, a local supplement of the Times of India newspaper, featured Pranav Lal, one of the users of The vOICe in India, in an article titled "Gadgets say 'we care'" that included a description of The vOICe.

• November 2008, The vOICe was implicitly featured in an article by science correspondent Richard Gray for The Sunday Telegraph titled  "Device lets blind people 'see' with sounds", based on an interview with Colin Blakemore of the University of Oxford.

• Ocober 23, 2008, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the Materials and Sensations 2008 workshop (ms2008), IPREM - Pau, France, October 22-24, 2008, in a presentation by Amir Amedi, William Stern, Ella Striem, Uri Hertz, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone titled  "fMRI study of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution: Can blind hear shapes and locations using artificial vision ?" (PDF file).

• October 2008, an article by Jamie Ward of the University of Sussex in the UK appeared in the Autumn 2008 newsletter of the School of Life Sciences, describing research with The vOICe. Article title: "Seeing with sound: a 'seeing aid' to the blind".

• October 2008, The vOICe was featured on page 147 in a new primary school reference book on science "My Pals Are Here! Science Booster Volume B" in the "My Pals Are Here!" series from Marshall Cavendish International, Educational Publishing, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-01-1417-6.

• October 9, 2008, The vOICe was featured on Canadian NovaNewsNow.com, in an article by Beth Irvine titled  "An eye to see".

• September 2008, a chapter titled "The Sound of Sight" about The vOICe in a new book by Donna M. Jackson titled "Phenomena: Secrets of the Senses". ISBN 978-0-316-16649-2.

• September 2008, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch popular science magazine  "Quest" (G+J), in an article by Tonie Mudde about echolocation by Daniel Kish and seeing with sound using The vOICe. The article is titled "Zien met je oren" (seeing with your ears), p. 40-43.

• September 2008, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X) in Bodrum, Turkey, September 1-5, 2008, with an oral presentationin by Amir Amedi et al. titled "Audio-visual integration for objects, location and low-level dynamic stimuli: novel insights from studying sensory substitution and topographical mapping", and an oral presentationin by Lotfi Merabet et al. titled "Retinotopic visual cortex mapping using a visual-to-auditory sensory-substitution device".

• August 25, 2008, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 31st European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2008), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 24-28, 2008, with a presentation by Amir Amedi, William Stern, Ella Striem, Uri Hertz, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone titled "A what/where visual-to-auditory sensory substitution fMRI study: Can blind and sighted hear shapes and locations in the visual cortex?".

• July 16, 2008, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2008), Hamburg, Germany, July 16-19, 2008, with a presentation by Amir Amedi, William Stern, Lotfi Merabet, Ella Striem, Uri Hertz, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone titled "Audio-visual integration for objects, location and low-level dynamic stimuli: novel insights from studying sensory substitution and topographical mapping".

• July 10, 2008, research findings obtained with The vOICe were published at the 9th International Conference on Low Vision (Vision 2008), in a presentation by Robert Zatorre and Jung-Kyong Kim titled "Vision to sound substitution: Behavioral and neural findings".

• July 13, 2008, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 6th Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS Forum 2008) in Geneva, Switzerland, July 12-16, 2008, in a poster by Michael Proulx and Petra Stoerig of the University of Düsseldorf. The poster title is  "Object recognition learning with an image-to-sound sensory substitution system" ( abstract).

• June 20, 2008, research findings obtained with The vOICe were published in Brain Research, in a paper by Jung-Kyong Kim and Robert Zatorre titled  "Generalized learning of visual-to-auditory substitution in sighted individuals" (PDF file).

• June 19, 2008, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2008) in Melbourne, Australia, June 15-19, 2008, in a poster by Lotfi Merabet, Dorothe Poggel, William Stern, Ela Bhatt, Christopher Hemond, Sara Maguire, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "Activation of visual cortex using crossmodal retinotopic mapping".

• June 5, 2008, French artists Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont gave a live performance using The vOICe at  "Le Cube Festival", June 3-8, 2008, in the Auditorium d'Issy-les-Moulineaux.

• March 30, 2008, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the Annual Meeting of the  UK Synaesthesia Association in Edinburgh, UK, March 29 - 30, 2008, in a presentation by Jamie Ward, Gerrit Maus, Peter Meijer and Stefan Strahl, titled "Helping the blind to see with sound: A man-made synaesthesia".

• March 26, 2008, scientific findings obtained with The vOICe were published in the March 2008 issue of PLoS ONE (Volume 3 | Issue 3 | e1840), in a paper by Michael Proulx, Petra Stoerig, Eva Ludowig and Inna Knoll, titled  "Seeing 'Where' through the Ears: Effects of Learning-by-Doing and Long-Term Sensory Deprivation on Localization Based on Image-to-Sound Substitution".

• March 13, 2008, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Vision and Eye Research (ISVER 2008), Neve Ilan, Israel, March 13-14, 2008, in a presentation by Amir Amedi, William Stern, Lotfi Merabet, Ella Striem, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "Non-visual factors modulating 'visual' cortex: multisensory integration and sensory substitution in blind and sighted individuals".

• February 27, 2008, invited closing presentation on sensory substitution and The vOICe at the  Eduverse Symposium (Virtual Web Symposium by eduverse.org, Robert Shepherd) in Amsterdam. This event at  debalie on virtual education, virtual reality and augmented reality was broadcast live on Second Life. Video available on  YouTube.

• February 7, 2008, rebroadcast on CBC Newsworld of "The Science of the Senses: Sight" CBC-TV broadcast of January 31.

• February 5, 2008, Pranav Lal, long-time user of The vOICe, gave a presentation on The vOICe at  Techshare India 2008, titled "Seeing with sound: real-life experiences with a non-invasive visual prosthesis" (5MB zip file of Powerpoint presentation); India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.

  

• January 31, 2008, The vOICe, blind user Pat Fletcher and neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone were featured on Canadian CBC Television in the CBC-TV program The Science of the Senses: Sight", part of the series "The Nature of Things" with David Suzuki. The program demonstrated how application of TMS to the occipital lobe (visual cortex) caused temporary loss of vOICe-based "sight" for Pat Fletcher. Series produced by The Nature of Things and Merit Motion Pictures, with Elizabeth Wilton and Michael Fuller.

• January 26, 2008, WYPL radio (Memphis, USA) broadcast an interview with Brian Shaw, long-time user of The vOICe, "Eye on Vision", with Vance Durbin on WYPL-FM 89.3, 19:00 CDT / 0:00 GMT ( WYPL: January 2008).

• January 2008, a paper about The vOICe, sonar and other electronic devices for the blind was published in the January 2008 issue of the Russian journal Известия вузов. Приборостроение. This paper by Sergey Ershov and Peter Meijer is titled Системы технического зрения с невизуальным представлением пространственной информации".

• December 12, 2007, invited lecture titled  "Sensory substitution and synthetic vision for the blind" at the CONGO's conference  "CONGres 2007: Brains, Technology and the Future", at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The other speakers were Anders Sandberg, Wolfgang Maass, Marwan Hariz, Ian Pearson and Nick Ramsey.

• November 9, 2007, invited plenary closing presentation (in Dutch) at the Annual Meeting 2007 (Ontmoetingsdag 2007) of the  Stichting InZicht (In Sight Foundation), ZonMw, Hooglanderveen, The Netherlands (Dutch abstract titled  "Zien met je oren: The vOICe").

• November 2007, a section on The vOICe was included in a new book from the World Wide Fund For Nature / World Wildlife Fund (WWF), titled "Das Wissen von Morgen - Chancen und Optionen" (The Know-how of Tomorrow), published for WWF by Pro Futura in Germany (page 75).

• October 2007, a short news item on aural vision titled "Seeing Sounds" appeared in the October 2007 issue of the science magazine "Popular Science" (Digital Edition), describing the research by Amir Amedi at Harvard Medical School, and based on use of The vOICe. Page 66 of the print version, in a chapter on "The Future of the Brain".

• July 28, 2007, public evening lecture (in German) by Petra Stoerig of the University of Düsseldorf, titled "Töne sehen - Über Synästhesie und sensorische Substitution" (Seeing tones - about synesthesia and sensory substitution), at the TWK 2007 (10th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz).

• July 6, 2007, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2007), Sydney, Australia, July 5-7, 2007, with a presentation by Amir Amedi et al. titled "Extracting shape and location information conveyed by visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates the lateral occipital complex and dorsal visual stream respectively in blind and sighted individuals".

• June 2007, T&T Consultancy Ltd produced an interview with Pranav Lal, long-time user of The vOICe, in the June 2007 issue of Infotech Audio Magazine. Brian Hartgen of T&T Consultancy kindly gave permission to put a public copy of this interview online ( Infotech: June 2007, downsampled to 56 kbps).

• May 26, 2007, The neuroscience research by Amir Amedi and colleagues on activation of LOtv by sound, based on use of The vOICe, was featured in the New Scientist with an article by Alison Motluk titled  "How the brain can hear shapes" (May 26 print edition title "The unmistakable sensation of hearing shapes", p. 22).

• May 21, 2007, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were published in the June 2007 issue of Nature Neuroscience, in a paper by Amir Amedi, William Stern, Joan Camprodon, Felix Bermpohl, Lotfi Merabet, Stephen Rotman, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "Shape conveyed by visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates the lateral occipital complex".

• May 5, 2007, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2005) in New York, USA, May 5-8, 2007, in a poster presentation by Jung-Kyong Kim and Robert J. Zatorre, titled "Visual substitution learning of abstract shapes via auditory input" (A-130).

• April 26, 2007, blind author Janet Shaw posted an article about The vOICe on her blog, titled  "Seeing With Sound: More on Artificial Vision".

• April 20, 2007, Assistive Technology News published an article about The vOICe written by long-time user Pranav Lal, titled "Seeing with Sounds, My Segue into Vision".

• March 24, 2007, Australian ABC Radio National featured neuroscience research based on use of The vOICe sensory substitution in the radio program "All in the Mind", with a broadcast  "The Blind Brain: Part 1 of 2", with Natasha Mitchell, Zoltan Torey, Pawan Sinha and Amir Amedi.

• March 21, 2007, 3d2f.com editors ranked The vOICe software the most promising in its class, with a short review article  "The vOICe, Sound of Sight".

• March 19, 2007, FameLab Romania finalist Simona Mancas from Bucharest was judged most popular finalist. She presented "Computer accessibility for visually disabled persons", featuring The vOICe.

  

• January 28, 2007, synesthete and photographer  Marcia Smilack presented her findings with The vOICe at the Sixth Annual National Conference of the  American Synesthesia Association, January 26-28, 2007, at the university of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA. The abstract is titled "The Language of Synesthesia".

• January 10, 2007, The vOICe passed the final selection for the  Well-Tech Award 2007, Innovation Technology Prize. ( The vOICe Technology, in Italian; last year, Optobionics was among the finalists.)

• November 27, 2006, Pat Fletcher presented The vOICe for Windows in Tek Talk Training on  Accessible World.

• November 2006, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch popular science magazine  "Quest" (G+J), in an article by Rik Kuiper about the human senses, titled "Samen sterk", pp. 28-33.

• October 9, 2006, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 5th Sino-German Advanced Workshop in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Beijing, China, in a presentation by Petra Stoerig of the University of Düsseldorf, titled "Seeing through the ears? Looking at sensory substitution".

• October 6, 2006, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 6th annual Optical Society of America Vision Meeting (OSA Vision Meeting) at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in a presentation by Amir Amedi of Harvard Center for Non-Invasive Magnetic Brain Stimulation, titled "Towards closing the gap between visual neuroprostheses and sight restoration: Insights from studying vision, cross-modal plasticity and sensory substitution". Abstract available  online.

• September 13, 2006, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the third International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2006) in Rome and Perugia, in a poster presentation by Alessandra Jacomuzzi and Nicola Bruno of the University of Trieste, Italy, titled "Perceiving occlusion through auditory-visual substitution".

• August 2006, The vOICe was briefly featured in NB Magazine (an RNIB publication), in an article by James Bird titled "Video magnifiers - the future".

• July 17, 2006, The vOICe has been pre-selected for the  Well-Tech Award 2007, Innovation Technology Prize.

  

• July 3, 2006, The vOICe was featured in the Health section of the Los Angeles Times (LA Times), in an article by Mary Beckman titled "Light at the tunnel's end".

• June 26, 2006, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the tenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 10) in Oxford, UK, in a poster presentation by Michael Proulx, Petra Stoerig, Eva Ludowig and Inna Knoll of the University of Düsseldorf, titled "Seeing 'where' through the ears? Localization by sensory substitution".

• June 24, 2006,  Daniel Kish and Karl Adam visited Peter Meijer, discussing and demonstrating The vOICe and echolocation.

• June 19, 2006, The vOICe was featured in the technology section of the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, in an online article by Ian Harvey titled  "Handhelds give blind insight" (the print version appeared a week earlier).

• June 19, 2006, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2006), Dublin, Ireland, June 18 - 21, 2006, with a presentation by Jung-Kyong Kim and Robert Zatorre titled  "Visual-to-auditory substitution learning: Behavioral findings and neural correlates".

• June 16, 2006, The vOICe was featured on the damninteresting.com website with an article by Cynthia Wood titled  "Can You Hear the View?". A derived article by Peter Pachal appeared on Sci-Fi Tech Blog, titled "vOICe glasses let the blind see through sound", while the day before there was an original entry about The vOICe by "JackTheVideoGuy" on  "The Technology Blog".

• June 15, 2006, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2006) in Florence, Italy, June 11-15, 2006, in a poster by Amir Amedi, Felix Bermpohl, Joan Camprodon, Lotfi Merabet, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "LO is a meta-modal operator for shape: an fMRI study using auditory-to-visual sensory substitution".

• June 5, 2006, The vOICe was featured in an article from Thế Giới Mới in the Vietnamese VnExpress titled  "Nhìn bằng âm thanh". The same article also appeared in the Thanh Nien Online and Tin Tuc Online.

• May 10, 2006, The vOICe was included in "Enseignement scientifique", a scientific teaching book from  Hachette Education (Enseignement scientifique 1re L - Livre de l'élève - Edition 2006, De la rétine au cerveau, p. 41, "être aveugle et voir", in the context of Denis Diderot's "Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient" with blind mathematician Saunderson; ISBN 2011354307).

• May 5, 2006, the Times of India Mumbai featured The vOICe and one of its users in India, Pranav Lal, in an article by Ketan Tanna about dreams of the blind, titled  "Dreams in sound, not colour" (May 5, 2006, page 17).

• April 11, 2006, invited presentation at the 4th Dutch  ICT-Kenniscongres in the Amsterdam RAI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Dutch abstract titled  "Kunnen blinden zien?").

  

• March 2006, The vOICe was briefly featured in  DTM Magazine, a Japanese monthly magazine for computer-based music production and multimedia technologies. Page 42.

• January 25, 2006, Brittany Russo of Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick became one of the 40 finalists (among 1,558 competitors) for the Intel Science Talent Search 2006 (65th Annual STS 2005-2006) with her project in behavioral and social sciences titled "Seeing through the Ears", aimed at developing a learning program for learning to see by sound. The Intel competition was later won by Shannon Babb from Utah. The Intel STS 2006 finalists met US  president Bush in Washington in March 2006.

• December 13, 2005, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) & the Joint Germany-Israel Meeting on The Neural Basis of Behavior, in Eilat, Israel, December 11-14, 2005, in a poster by Amir Amedi, Felix Bermpohl, Joan Camprodon, Lotfi Merabet, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "Neural correlates of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution in proficient blind users" (D2.15), in the poster session titled "Sensory systems: sensation and perception".

  

• December 11, 2005, The vOICe was featured in The New York Times, in the 5th annual  "Year in Ideas" (2005), with an article by Alison Motluk titled  "Seeing With Your Ears" (Sunday's Late Edition in print, section 6, page 90, column 3, 456 words; use link on online "Year in Ideas" page for instant free access).
  

• November 22, 2005, Nokia developer newsletter: ``Dutch developer has written code to interpret image colors for color-blind individuals.''

• October 27-29, 2005, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at a symposium on dynamic and adaptive neural systems, organized by the German VolkswagenStiftung, at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in a poster by Petra Stoerig, Eva Ludowig and Peter Meijer, titled "Seeing through the ears?".

• October 26-27, 2005, invited participation in Foresight on Information Society Technologies in Europe (FISTE) workshop on "Converging Technologies for Enabling the Information Society", Seville, Spain, organized by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), one of the European Commission Joint Research Centres.

• October 6-8, 2005, invited contribution on The vOICe for the First World Congress on Blind Navigation Technologies, at NFB's Jernigan Institute in Baltimore, USA. The central theme is  "Inventing the Future of Blind Navigation". One of the  draft proposals is titled  "A Modular Synthetic Vision and Navigation System for the Totally Blind". Other contributions include proposals by Leslie Kay, Steve Mann, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Jack Loomis, Mike May and others.

• August 6, 2005, rebroadcast of the April 2, 2005 feature on The vOICe and the associated neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School on Canadian CBC Radio One.

• June 16, 2005, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2005) in Toronto, Canada, June 12-16, 2005, in a poster by Amir Amedi, Felix Bermpohl, Joan Camprodon, Sharon Fox, Lotfi Merabet, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "Neural correlates of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution in proficient blind users" (#1360 TH-PM, in the poster session titled "Sensation and Perception").

• June 6, 2005, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2005), Rovereto, Italy, June 5-8, 2005, in a symposium titled "Can the Blind See?", with a presentation by Amir Amedi and Peter Meijer titled "Neural correlates of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution in proficient blind users".

• June 4-9, 2005, artist  Daniel Carey exhibits a video piece named Information at the Makeshift exhibition in Leeds, UK. The audio was created using The vOICe.

• May 19, 2005, The vOICe was chosen as top nominated design for the Danish "Index 2005" design award in the area of body related technology for improved human life, among the 20 top nominees in this category. (The  LifeStraw portable water purification tool later on won the award.)

• May 11, 2005, The vOICe was featured on the Talking Gizmos website with an article by Marcia Baris-Sanders titled "Beyond Talking Products to Seeing With Sound - Innovations in Auditory Representation for the Blind".

• May 7, 8, 10-12, 2005, The vOICe was featured by artist Kris Verdonck (Margarita Production) at the  "KunstenFESTIVALdesarts" in Brussels, Belgium, in a choreography titled II "Man" with a blindfolded dancer (Jean-Luc Ducourt) wearing a helmet with a camera. Later performances are planned for CCCB in Barcelona and La Bâtie in Geneva.

• May 1, 2005, The vOICe was featured on the Israeli news portal "Walla!" with an article titled  "לראות את הקולות".

• April 30, 2005, The vOICe was featured on EnGadget in an article by Barb Dybwad titled  "'The vOICe' helps the blind see through sound".

• April 29, 2005, The vOICe and the recent CBC Radio One broadcast were featured on the Boing Boing blog, with an entry titled  "Blind woman who sees with sound", through  Darren Barefoot. A day later also listed on  SmartMobs.

• April 17, 2005, rebroadcast of the December 19, 2004 Dutch television feature on The vOICe in "Hoe?Zo!", April 17, 2005, 17:25h - 18:10h, Nederland 1.

• April 11, 2005, neuroscience findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2005) in New York, USA, April 9-12, 2005, in a poster presentation by Amir Amedi, Felix Bermpohl, Joan Camprodon, Sharon Fox, Lotfi Merabet, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, titled "Neural correlates of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution in proficient blind users" (E-288). The results were also presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN 2005), Miami Beach, Florida, on Sunday April 10, 2005 and on Tuesday April 12, 2005.

• April 2, 2005, The vOICe and the associated neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School were featured on Canadian CBC Radio One in the popular science program "Quirks & Quarks", hosted by Bob McDonald: "The Science of Seeing with Sound". The 22-minute documentary by Alison Motluk is titled "See, If You Can Hear This", with contributions from Pat Fletcher and Alvaro Pascual-Leone. MP3 and Ogg audio files available online (MP3  streaming audio).
  

• April 2005, The vOICe and other sonification approaches were featured in an article by Ray Girvan in Scientific Computing World titled  "Sound sense".

• March 31, 2005, The vOICe was featured in a news message on the web3Dnews website.

• March 29, 2005, The vOICe was featured in a  news message on the Web3D Consortium homepage after adding X3D samples to the Accessible VRML/X3D for the Blind web page.

• March 14-19, 2005, The vOICe for mobile camera phones was available for demonstration by Torsten Brand in combination with the ScanSoft SpeechPAK TALKS screen reader at the CSUN 2005 conference in Los Angeles. Exhibit: ScanSoft booth 517 Hilton. (Scansoft later in 2005 merged with Nuance.)

• February 23, 2005, The vOICe was briefly featured on CNET News as a nonsurgical technique ("Regaining lost sight") in the context of an article about Claude Veraart's optic nerve implant (MIVIP/OPTIVIP), titled "Scientists envision granting sight to the blind". The main article about the optic nerve implant shows a photograph of a blind user wearing The vOICe (not a recipient of the optic nerve implant).

• January 29, 2005, the topic of sensory substitution, and including reference to The vOICe and experiments with The vOICe by Kevin O'Regan and Malika Auvray, was featured in the New Scientist print edition with an article by Helen Phillips titled  "Senses special: The feeling of colour" (subscription required), pp. 40-43.

• January 28, 2005, The vOICe and the research by Petra Stoerig at the University of Düsseldorf were featured in News Magazine Ingeniøren (ing.dk, and weekly newspaper for the Danish Engineering Society), with a Danish article by Jan Skøt titled  "Ørerne kan se" ("Ears can see"), pp. 20-21.

• December 29, 2004, rebroadcast of the December 14, 2004 US television feature on The vOICe in "The Screen Savers" on G4 TV, 7pm EST / 4pm PST.

• December 19, 2004, The vOICe was featured on national television in The Netherlands, in issue 8 of the Teleac popular science program  "Hoe?Zo!" presented by Bart Peeters with participation of Gerda Havertong and Jetty Mathurin, December 19, 2004, 21:35h - 22:20h, Nederland 1. The section about The vOICe is available as a four and a half minute MP4 video 340 Kbps With special thanks to Robbert-Jan Metselaar (DDTV) and Manfred Mittelstaedt.
  
  MP4 video: kijken met je oren

• December 14 and 15, 2004, The vOICe was featured by G4 TV in their television program "The Screen Savers" (TSS, episode  "Zap-N-Trash, Overclocked Scrubber, DVD Tuesday").

• November 23, 2004, The vOICe approach was briefly covered in an article about sensory substitution in The New York Times,  "New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses", by Sandra Blakeslee.

• October 30, 2004, Petra Stoerig's research with The vOICe was featured in the Science & Technology section of The Economist (print edition October 30 - November 5, 2004, p. 93) in an article titled "Seeing with your ears - Sounds like a picture" ("Sensory perception: Translating images into noise allows people to see with their ears").
  

• October 24, 2004, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN 2004) in San Diego, USA, October 23-27, 2004, in a poster presentation by Petra Stoerig, Eva Ludowig, Thomas Mierdorf, Ana-Maria Oros-Peusquens, Jon Shah, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone titled "Seeing through the ears? Identification of images converted to sounds improves with practice".

• October 12 - 14, 2004, new low-cost hardware for The vOICe, E-Eye (Ear-Eye) by LKS Labs of George Loo, was on display at The Enterprise Exchange emerging technology exhibition at GES 2004, the Global Entrepolis @ Singapore international innovation and enterprise exchange conference in Singapore.

• September 21, 2004, The vOICe was featured in a 15-minute live  interview by Jill Daley for  "VIP On Air" (nowadays  Insight Radio), Europe's first Internet radio station for blind and partially sighted people. Broadcast at 2:30 PM GMT.

• September 10, 2004, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch September issue of Dow Magazine, a publication of Dow Chemical, Terneuzen, The Netherlands, in the centerfold article by Hans de Coninck (Puype & Partners) titled  "Ik kan zien met mijn oren" (185 K PDF file), p. 8.

• July/August 2004, The vOICe was featured in the July/August 2004 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine in an article by Joe Lazzaro titled "Artificial vision and the kite and key experiment: visual prosthetics for the blind".

• July 14, 2004, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 4th Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS Forum 2004) in Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-14, 2004, in a poster presentation by Petra Stoerig, Eva Ludowig, Peter Meijer and Alvaro Pascual-Leone titled  "Seeing through the ears?".

• June 8, 2004, The vOICe was featured on the "Interesting Thing of the Day" (ITotD) website in an article by Joe Kissell titled "Bionic Eyes - Seeing is believing".

• May 10 - 15, 2004, The vOICe technology was demonstrated by the CSIR (South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) at the National Science Week 2004 in South Africa. The photograph below shows the South African minister of Science and Technology, Mr Mosibudi Mangena, visiting the booth where The vOICe is being demonstrated by Andrew Smith of the Information Society Technologies Centre (ISTC), part of CSIR.
  

• April 26, 2004, The vOICe was featured in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in an article by Brian Feldman about Adam Shaible titled "Device lets man, blind since birth, hear the sights of sunset".

• April 13, 2004, The vOICe was featured on BBC Ouch Close Up in an article by Liz Ball titled  "Down with dogs and canes?".

• March 12, 2004, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch technical news magazine  "Technisch Weekblad" (VNU Business Publications), in an article by Teake Zuidema titled "Blinden kunnen 'zien' met een Nokia" (Vol. 35, Issue 10, p. 3).

• March 2004, The vOICe was featured in "Ud & Se", the monthly passenger magazine of the Danish State Railways (DSB), with an article titled "Se med Ørerne", p. 50.

• February 21, 2004, The vOICe was featured on the homepage of  Slashdot Japan ("で携帯電話が盲導犬代わりに!?").

• February 2004, The vOICe was featured in IEEE Spectrum with a News Analysis article by Willie D. Jones titled  "Sight for Sore Ears - Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind", pp. 13-14.
  

• January 21, 2004, the outcomes of the neuroscience project of Petra Stoerig at the University of Düsseldorf, based on using The vOICe with blindfolded sighted subjects, were featured on German national radio on channel WDR 5, in the Science program "Leonardo", in a broadcast titled "Mit den Ohren sehen" (see also the German transcript of the WDR-5 broadcast). The broadcast had originally been planned for January 16, 2004. One can listen to an online MP3 streaming audio version of this  WDR-5 Leonardo radio interview with Petra Stoerig (about six and a half minutes, in German).
  

• January 19, 2004, Petra Stoerig of the University of Düsseldorf gave a presentation titled "Seeing with the ears: A pilot study" at the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology in Paris, France.

• January 1, 2004, The vOICe was featured in The Washington Times with an article by Fred Reed titled "Sound gives 'sight' to blind".

• December 3, 2003, The vOICe was featured in the South-African national newspaper "Die Burger" with an article in Afrikaans by Carel van Dyk titled "Sien met jou ore" (p. 15).

• November 28, 2003, The vOICe was featured in the High-Tech section of the French science website futura-sciences.com with a news article titled  "Voir avec ses oreilles: une nouvelle méthode pour les aveugles".

• November 10, 2003, The vOICe was featured on Channel 4 UK in the  Richard and Judy show (starting at 5:00 p.m.), by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. One of the participants was Kevin O'Regan, director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. Another participant was John Cronly-Dillon of the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK.

• November 2003, The vOICe was featured in Gale's Science & Health Community News of the Gale Group, Inc., in an article by Agnieszka M. Lichanska titled "Seeing with Sound".

• October 17, 2003, The vOICe was featured in the business news section of the Japanese Internet Industry portal japan.internet.com, in an article titled  "五感をスイッチ" (Senses switch). The news feature also appeared on Yahoo News Japan.

• October 17, 2003, The vOICe was featured in the Czech magazine iDNES Technet, in an article by Petr Nachtmann titled "Slepí vidí sluchem díky zařízení od Philipse".

• October 16, 2003, The vOICe was featured on the Dutch Internet portal Planet Internet, in an article titled  "The vOICe laat blinden zien" (The vOICe lets blind see).

• October 16, 2003, The vOICe website was featured as the "Dot com of the Day" on the homepage of the Japanese site  "www.100shiki.com".

• October 14, 2003, the Korean Internet Journal donga.com featured The vOICe in an article titled  "시각장애인用 신호전달장치 실용단계".

• October 14, 2003, the Dutch commercial radio station Yorin FM featured The vOICe with a ten minute telephone interview in the morning radio program  "Eddo in de Ochtend!", presented by Edwin Ouwehand and Joost Buitenweg.

• October 13, 2003, the South African radio station 702 Talk Radio featured The vOICe with a five minute telephone interview in the radio program Technobyte, presented by Aki Anastasiou.

• October 8, 2003, dinner in Amsterdam with blind author  Joe Lazzaro, discussing various vision (substitution) technologies.

• October 8, 2003, The vOICe was featured by Martin Sivertsen in the Norwegian magazine IT Avisen, in an article titled "Blinde kan «se» med mobilen - Kamerabilder blir til lyd".

• October 8, 2003, The vOICe was featured by Susanne Nylén in the Swedish magazine Aftonbladet, in an article titled  "Blinda ser med kamera - Ny teknik hjälper blinda se med ljud".

• October 7, 2003, BBC News Online featured The vOICe and its first implementation for mobile phones by Blue Edge Bulgaria in an article by Lakshmi Sandhana titled  "Blind 'see with sound'". Translations of this article are also available in  Russian,  Arabic and  Portuguese.
  

• September 20, 2003, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 13th conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2003), Granada, Spain, in an oral presentation by Malika Auvray, Kevin O'Regan and Sylvain Hanneton titled "Localisation, form recognition and emergence of sensation in sensory substitution".

• September 2, 2003, findings obtained with The vOICe were presented at the 26th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2003), Paris, France, in a poster by Malika Auvray, Sylvain Hanneton and Kevin O'Regan titled  "Localisation and form recognition in sensory substitution" (182 K PDF file). See also the  poster abstract.

  

• September 11, 2003, the neuroscience project of Petra Stoerig at the University of Düsseldorf, based on The vOICe, was featured in the German newspaper NRZ (Neuen Ruhr/Rhein Zeitung) in an article by Arndt Stermann titled "Mit den Ohren sehen lernen".

• September 2003, the neuroscience project of Petra Stoerig at the University of Düsseldorf, based on The vOICe, was featured in the "MAGAZIN der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf", 2003, issue 3, in an article by Victoria Meinschäfer titled  "Mit den Ohren sehen lernen?" (160 K PDF file).

• July 10, 2003, The Christian Science Monitor featured The vOICe and GPS in an article by Lakshmi Sandhana titled  "Seeing-eye and navigation technologies mean more freedom for the blind".

• July 2, 2003, the Dutch national newspaper "NRC Handelsblad" featured The vOICe software on their website in an article titled  "Zien met geluid" (seeing with sound), by science writer Herbert Blankesteijn.

• June 28, 2003, The vOICe for Windows software was demonstrated by Herbert Blankesteijn on Dutch Teleac/NOT Radio in the program TeleScoop Magazine, together with Ingrid Drissen en Willem Jan Hagens. The radio broadcast is available online as MP3 streaming audio via the link  Circus Blankesteijn: Hoeveel vingers steek ik op? (about 11 minutes, in Dutch).

• June 24, 2003, invited presentation on The vOICe in the Neuroinformatics Seminar at the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics at University Luebeck, Germany ( Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Universität zu Lübeck). This presentation was preceeded by an introductory seminar titled "Sehen mit dem Ohr?" on June 10, 2003, by Simon Vogt, Christopher Krause and Erhardt Barth at the same institute.

• June 20, 2003, The vOICe for Windows software was reviewed in the two Australian newspapers  "The Sydney Morning Herald" and  "The Age", in an article by Rose Vines titled "Listen up".

• June 11, 2003, The vOICe for Windows software was presented by blind comedian Vincent Bijlo on Dutch Teleac/NOT Radio in the program TeleScoop Actueel. The radio broadcast is available online as MP3 streaming audio via the link  Vincent Bijlo's column in TeleScoop Actueel (about 5 minutes, in Dutch).

• May 28, 2003, invited presentation on The vOICe for USCKI Incognito at the USCKI symposium "Perceiving is Believing", Utrecht, The Netherlands. The other invited speakers were Crétien van Campen, Pieter P. Jonker and Erik Myin. Chairman was Vincent Bijlo.

• May 27, 2003, the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" featured The vOICe and the associated neuroscience project at the University of Düsseldorf in an article by Dorothee Lehmann titled "Weg macht Musik - Eine Brille für Blinde verwandelt Bilder in Töne".

• May 7, 2003, invited presentation on The vOICe at the Institute of Medicine (IME), Research Center Juelich, Germany ( Institut für Medizin, Forschungszentrum Jülich).

• April 28, 2003, the German radio station DeutschlandRadio Berlin featured the neuroscience project at the University of Düsseldorf, based on The vOICe, in the program "Die Hörbrille" ("hearing glasses") by Stephanie Kowalewski.

• April 25, 2003, the German newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau" featured The vOICe in relation to the Hollywood movie "Daredevil" in an article by Janko Röttgers titled "Sehen mit dem Ohr" (Seeing with your ears).

• April 20, 2003, the German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" featured The vOICe and the associated neuroscience project at the University of Düsseldorf in an article by Dorothee Lehmann and Bernd Kopp titled "Spezialbrille für Blinde macht Bilder hörbar" (Special glasses for the blind make images audible).

• April 2003, The vOICe was featured in a thematic issue of the French edition of Scientific American, "Dossier Pour La Science", pp. 30-35, in an article titled  "Voir avec les oreilles" (seeing with the ears, 175 K PDF file), by Kevin O'Regan and Malika Auvray of the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology of the University of Paris 5.

• March 23, 2003, The vOICe was mentioned on Slashdot in a feature on  "The Status Quo Of Computer Vision".

• March 4, 2003, the neuroscience project of Petra Stoerig at the University of Düsseldorf, based on The vOICe, was featured in the German newspaper "Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung" in an article by Christoph Kleinau about test subject Jan-Carlo Portillo titled  "Für die Wissenschaft dem Licht entsagt" (125 K PDF file).
  

• March 2003, The vOICe was featured in Laptop Magazine, in an article on artificial vision written by Diane Stresing. The title of the article in the Science & Technology section was "Seeing Is Believing".

• February 27 and 28, 2003, The vOICe and the associated neuroscience project at the University of Düsseldorf (Petra Stoerig) were featured by Michael Ringelsiep on German television (3Sat, WDR, SWR, MDR, SFB B1 and BRalpha), in the science news program "Nano - Die Welt von Morgen" (nano - the world of tomorrow), under the subject line "Eine Hörbrille lässt sehen" (hearing glasses provide sight). Available as MP4 streaming video file.
  
  MP4 streaming video of The vOICe featured on 3Sat/WDR

  A related article "Hörbrille für Blinde - Mit den Ohren sehen", by Frank Staudenmayer, appeared on February 28 on the Bayerischer Rundfunk website.

• February 24, 2003, invited presentation on The vOICe at the Department of Functional Neurobiology, Helmholtz Research School, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

• January 2003, The vOICe was featured in the quarterly special issue of the French popular science magazine "Science & Vie Junior" (Science and Life Junior) - Hors Série No. 51, in the article "Et les Aveugles Verront" (and the blind will see), by Muriel Valin, pp. 74-80. The special issue was dedicated to "L'oeil et le cerveau" (the eye and the brain).

• December 15, 2002, the Times of India featured The vOICe and one of its users in India, Pranav Lal, in an article by Sanghamitra Chakraborty titled  The vOICe that helps the visually-handicapped 'see'.

• Friday August 2, 2002, The vOICe technology was referred to in "Advances in Computer Vision", the plenary keynote by Massimo Piccardi of Sydney University of Technology, Australia, at the SSGRR 2002s (International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet), L'Aquila, Italy.

• April 15 and 16, 2002, invited presentation on seeing with sound at the workshop on Multimodal Interactions in Perception, Paris, France, at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Amphi Darboux. Organized by J. Kevin O'Regan and James J. Clark.

• April 12, 2002, Wired News covered The vOICe in the Business News article  Red, Blue, Green and Other Sounds, by Mark K. Anderson.
  

• April 8, 2002, two invited presentations on seeing with sound at the Tucson 2002 conference, Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, USA. The presentations by Peter Meijer and Pat Fletcher (a blind user of The vOICe), are available online as 32 Kbps MP3 streaming audio via the links  Seeing with sound: Is it vision? (about 26 minutes) and  Seeing with sound: A journey into sight (about 24 minutes).

• April 1 and 2, 2002, The vOICe was featured by Rick Lockridge on the U.S. television channel G4 TV (formerly TechTV), in their prime-time newscast program "Tech Live" (broadcast Monday April 1, 2002, 8:30 p.m. EST and also April 2, 2002, 9:00 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST). The formerly online G4 TechTV story includes a link to two minutes of streaming video of the G4 TechTV television broadcast. Available as Pat Fletcher on TechTV.
  
  MP4 streaming video with Pat Fletcher on TechTV

  The G4 TechTV story also appeared in the Sci/Tech section of ABC News of April 2, 2002.

  

• February 8, 2002, invited presentation titled "Seeing with Sound: Development of a Camera-Based Sensory Bypass for the Blind" in the "Oberseminar: Grundlagen der Physiologischen Psychologie" at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, section  Experimental Biological Psychology (Prof. Petra Stoerig), University of Düsseldorf (Heinrich-Heine University), Germany.

• December 9 - 12, 2001, The vOICe was featured by Mike Lippert in an interview on Danish Radio 1 in the technology program "Harddisken" (Ugens Harddisk on DR P1), now available as MP3 streaming audio  Seeing with Sound (about twelve and a half minutes, mostly Danish, partly English).

• November 4, 2001, The vOICe was featured by Anna Bäsén in the Swedish magazine EXPRESSEN.SE, in an article titled "Titta - nu kan blinda se med öronen!" ("Look - now the blind can see with their ears!").

• November 3, 2001, The vOICe was featured on Sweden's Radio 1 by Per Gustavsson in the science program "Vetandets värld lördag", now available as MP3 streaming audio  Nu försöker forskarna lära oss att se med öronen (almost six minutes, mostly Swedish, some English).

• November 1, 2001, invited presentation at the NIC2001 (Nordic Interactive Conference) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• July 2001, The vOICe for Windows was used by the CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) at the SCORE 2001 summer camp.

• June 2001, The vOICe for Windows was featured in an article on creative webcam applications in the summer edition of "Internet idee", a Dutch magazine devoted to the use of Internet, issue June-August 2001, pp. 64-65.

• June 1, 2001, invited lecture titled "Seeing with Sound for the Blind: Is it Vision?" at the VSPA conference on Consciousness at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, together with Margaret Boden, David Chalmers, Petra Stoerig, Axel Cleeremans, Wim van de Grind and Ellert Nijenhuis.

• April 23, 2001, The vOICe for Windows was featured in an article "The vOICe: WebCam for the blind?!" at WebCam World.

• November 2000, The vOICe Java applet was highlighted in  Electronic Musician magazine, in an article titled "Java Jive: Is Java The Electronic Musician's Cup of Tea?", pp. 44 ff.

• September 18, 2000, acting as invited External Examiner for the Leicester University Ph.D. thesis of Michael Capp on "Alternative approaches to optophonic mappings". The Viva Voce took place at Nene Centre for Research, Northampton, UK. Supervisor was Phil Picton of University College Northampton.

• September 2000, The vOICe was featured in Weekly Websights of IEEE Spectrum Online.

• June 5, 2000, The vOICe for Windows software was featured in ACB Radio's  Main Menu, the online technology show of the American Council of the Blind, presented by Jonathan Mosen. Users of a streaming MP3 player such as WinAmp can listen directly to The vOICe for Windows software review as MP3  streaming audio.

• February 12, 2000, "Listening to Light", presentation and demonstration given by composer and sonic artist Hugh Huddy at the Sonic Arts Network Conference 2000 (SAN '2000) at the University of Newcastle, UK. Hugh Huddy is a visually impaired user of The vOICe for Windows.

• January, 2000, Kenneth Downey wrote an independent user review on The vOICe for Windows for  Audyssey, Computer Games Accessible to the Blind. Issue 21: January/February, 2000.

• August 4, 1999, The vOICe for Windows featured by  WebCam World home and WebCam Developers.
  

• June 15, 1999, demonstrated The vOICe for Windows to Mike May and Mike Busboom from Arkenstone (now at the  Sendero Group). It was a pleasant, enlightening and memorable meeting. This was before Mike May's partial vision restoration through surgery, which was later featured in the BBC documentary "The Man Who Learnt to See" (2002).

• April 1, 1999, a new seeingwithsound discussion group (mailing list) was created for blind users of The vOICe technology.

• March 15 - 20, 1999, The vOICe for Windows math and science access features demonstrated by the  Trace R&D Center at the  CSUN '99 conference in Los Angeles, USA. Special thanks to Al Gilman and Madeleine Rothberg for doing the demo. Covered by The Guardian of Thursday March 18, in an article by Dan Jellinek titled "Designs for living" (p. B4).

• The vOICe auditory display applet included on the Interactive Student Tutorial CD with the third edition of Contemporary College Physics by Jones and Childers, McGraw-Hill, 1999. Also listed in their Online Library.

• November 24, 1998, Wired News featured The vOICe for Windows in their Technology News article  "Seeing-Eye Software", by Kristen Philipkoski.
  

  An article by Vladimir Titov appeared in  Computerra (in Russian).

• July 22, 1998 (Wednesday), at 2:15-4 pm, invited speaker at SIGGRAPH 98 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Panel session Listen Up! Real-Time Auditory Interfaces for the Real World with demo of The vOICe for Windows during panel presentation. Further demonstrations were given at the CAL (Creative Applications Lab) on July 22 and 23.

• July 2, 1998, The vOICe was featured in the Dutch radio broadcast series ``Dingen Die Gebeuren.'' Topic: ``Kijken met je oren'' (KRO, Radio 1).

• January 1, 1998, The vOICe for Windows for Windows-95/98/NT (later named The vOICe for Windows) was launched, offering vision substitution applications using a hifi stereo auditory display. The real-time performance of this fully integrated program was optimized for use with Pentium notebook PC's.

• October 11, 1997, the BBC World Service science program "The Works" featured The vOICe in a radio interview.

• October 8, 1997, WebCam of the Day website award at DCN (www.dcn.com).

• September, 1997, webcam support was added to The vOICe Java software.

• August 8 - 10, 1997, the New Scientist declared The vOICe web site their ``Site of the Day'' on Planet Science.

• May 30 - June 1, 1997, Tony Heyes (the inventor of the Sonic Pathfinder) visited Peter Meijer and they discussed different approaches to electronic travel aids and vision substitution.

• October 1996, The vOICe Java auditory display applet was launched, now illustrating The vOICe mapping in a truly interactive manner through on-line polyphonic sound synthesis. The applet was also listed at Gamelan and JavaCats in the multimedia - sound sections, and it was rated top 5% by   JARS.
  

• May 2, 1996, working in parallel with The vOICe development, Peter Meijer received his Ph.D. on Neural Network Applications in Device and Subcircuit Modelling for Circuit Simulation.

• March 25-28, 1996. The vOICe electronic equipment (hardware prototype) was demonstrated at  The Rank Prize Funds Symposium on Technology to Assist the Blind and Visually Handicapped, Grasmere, United Kingdom, March 25-28, 1996. Exchange of ideas with insect vision expert Mandyam Srinivasan ("Srini") while walking around the lake.

• 1996, old website, now obsolete: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Meijer/

• March 1995. Hans Albrecht, ``Maus aus dem Kopf - Wie electronische Hilfen Behinderten das Leben erleichtern,'' Der Spiegel special, March 1995, pp. 143-144.

• June 1994. Rosie Mestel,  "Hearing pictures, seeing sounds", New Scientist, June 4, 1994, pp. 20-23.
  

• October 1993. Carl Zimmer, "Perception Watch - Substitute Sensations",  Discover Magazine, October 1993, pp. 24-26.

• February 1992, key paper published on what is now called The vOICe approach: P.B.L. Meijer, ``An Experimental System for Auditory Image Representations,'' IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 112-121, Feb 1992. The paper was selected for reprint in the 1993 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, pp. 291-300. See also the Abstract and Literature page.

• June 29, 1991, Barry Fox describes The vOICe in the New Scientist in  "Patents: A sound view".

• July 27, 1990, filed U.S. Patent 5097326 on an "image-audio transformation system" for the blind.