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VAST NEWS Here you will find any announcements made by VAST Audio or its affiliated researchers, in general activating one of these links will pop up another window and may take you to another site. VAST Audio is only responsible for information that you find on this site. Our aim is to keep you informed of happenings related to VAST Audio so check back now and then to keep up to date. May 2006, VAST Audio has secured a Commercial Ready grant for the further development and early stage commercialisation of the Spatial Hearing Aid. This grant provided by AusIndustry will support manufacture lead trials and integration of the algorithm onto commercial hearing aid platforms. April 2006, we are pleased to announce that VAST Audio has been working with Philips in the testing and refinement of new binaural decoding techniques. This work has been presented at the MPEG standards body and objectively shown to provide the best perceptual result with the least complexity. This collaboration is the first of many such activities that we will be undertaking throughout this year as we begin to bring other technologies in the 3D Audio area to market. February 2006, having now completed and fulfilled the terms and conditions of the existing agreement with Allen & Buckeridge and met the agreed milestones we are pleased to announce that A&B have invested a further tranche of funds to support the ongoing growth and development of VAST Audio. December 2005, the results of our clinical trial confirm that the Spatial Hearing Aid provides substantial benefit to hearing aid wearers in their ability to understand speech in noisy environments. We have completed the analysis and reported to our investors and the grant body. We are finalising the next round of funding for the next stage of commercialisation. We will conclude the funding round in early 2006. December 2005. We were awarded 3rd place in the Secrets of IT competition, at an award ceremony this week we mingled with the Minister and other award recipients. A press release from the Ministers office is available here November 2005 VAST Audio has been selected as a finalist in The Australia IT Secrets Competition, the finalists have to produce a 3 min video about their innovation. So we are busily putting that together for submission at the end of this month more information on the competition is available at http://www.itsecrets.com.au. November 2005. The clinical trials for the spatial hearing aid which were funded by a BIF grant have now completed and we are analysing the data and cross referencing the information to ensure its validity and accuracy. Stay tuned for the results real soon now... May / June 2005 We were featured in a number of articles, TV news articles and Craig Jin was interviewed by a range of media outlets about the Spatial Hearing Aid. Some of the articles and interviews were: Science in Public - Sydney Team invents 3D hearing aid, ABC News - Hearing Aid restores surround sound, there were plenty more and it helped to raise the profile of our efforts. Going by the response we received from the public we are confident that the Spatial Hearing Aid is meeting a very strong need in the community. We will have the first results of our clinical trials in October of this year. April 2005, we presented a poster at the American Audiological Association (AAA) annual conference in Washington DC. The poster was entitled, High Frequencies and Spatial Location in Speaker Segregation. A copy of the poster as a PDF is supplied here.February 2005, the ABC Science section ran a good article on the
value and uses of 3D Audio, our own founders were interviewed for this article.
You can see it
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