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Sensimetrics has a number of interesting simulations of what sounds, speech, and music sound like to a person with cochlear implants. It dramatically shows why having 8 or more electrodes in the implant is important. What it doesn’t show is how a person’s brain can adapt to the sounds so that they don’t seem so foreign. This is especially true for children. That said, we plan to upgrade Christopher to the Advanced Bionics 120-channel processing strategy as soon as possible.
I had trouble with a broken link on the Sensimetrics site, and since the content may disappear, I’ve mirrored the demos here. For the sentences, you might want to try the videos first and see how much lipreading makes a difference. You’ll also notice that musical instruments sound a lot worse than speech. This is something that CI users have reported.
How accurate are these simulations? Well, I saw a talk by a physics professor who lost his hearing as an adult and now has a CI. He says that he can’t tell the difference between the 12-channel demo and the original.
Sentence 1 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sentence 1 Video: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sentence 2 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sentence 2 Video: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sentence 3 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sentence 3 Video: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Instrument 1 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Instrument 2 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Instrument 3 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Instrument 4 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sound 1 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sound 2 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sound 3 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sound 4 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sound 5 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sound 6 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original
Sound 7 Audio: 1, 4, 8, 12, 20, Original