What the world sounds like through a cochlear implant.

Category: Hear No Evil - See No Evil

Post 1 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2014 21:34:09

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10848586/What-the-world-sounds-like-with-a-cochlear-implant.html

Post 2 by vh (This site is so "educational") on Thursday, 28-Aug-2014 11:59:36

Interesting. How does this compare to sound experienced with hearing aids?
Also, at the end, there are birds chirping but there is no comparative cochlear implant experience. Oversight on the videomakers part?

Post 3 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Thursday, 28-Aug-2014 12:56:12

Hearing aids make things sound much more natural. They can be set to filter out background noise so you can hear people in noisy environments. Implants can't do that, at least not yet.

Post 4 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Thursday, 28-Aug-2014 20:08:35

Wow, that's interesting.
I always thought the implants sounded better than that.

Bob

Post 5 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Saturday, 30-Aug-2014 11:34:09

Yeah, it's a challenge to transmute the electrical impulses into something resembling sound. I only hope that by the time I need them, they have improved enough to make music sound good. A late friend of mine said after he got his, eloquence sounded normal after several weeks, but human voices never sounded intelligible again for him. He was blind also, so he had to bring his laptop with him to dialysis so they could type to him.

Post 6 by chelslicious (like it or not, I'm gonna say what I mean. all the time.) on Saturday, 30-Aug-2014 17:15:16

interesting.
I, too, was always under the impression that the implants sounded pretty close to normal. I hope they get to the point where they eventually do sound pretty normal, for the sake of people who need them.

Post 7 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Friday, 05-Sep-2014 14:24:19

For some of us, we cant get used to the digital hearing aids. remember that with analog aids, everything came in at one volume level. the digital aids actually I've experienced try to make it so that if a person is further away, that they'll sound lower, and the person closer to you would sound louder. that never worked for me. if the person was further away, their sound level would be so low that I couldn't understand what they were saying. there is a huge difference between not hearing somebody, and not understanding what they are speaking. people don't realize that. we all, me included say "I cant hear". bu but lots of times its I cant understand. oh sure, I hear that they are talking, but actually knowing what they are saying is a totally different thing. Most probably know I am oral. hell, people have told me they don't even know that I have a hearing impairment. not sure if that's a blessing or a curse.

Post 8 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Saturday, 06-Sep-2014 0:16:48

I hope that by time I have to do this, things will have improved. This is not acceptable, but I suppose better than nothing.