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If you’re thinking about getting a cochlear implant for your or a loved one, you probably have lots of questions on your mind. And while lots of these are fairly easy for yourhearing professional to answer, there’s one that can be very tricky to describe. Just what does hearing with a cochlear implant sound like?

There are plenty of videos online which attempt to simulate the sound of a cochlear implant. Take this one, from the亚利桑那州立大学耳蜗植入研究实验室. They asked a MED-EL recipient who has a CI in one ear, and normal hearing in the other to help them simulate the sound.

But does this match the experiences of other cochlear implant recipients? Five MED-EL users from around the world share what their cochlear implant sounds like.

“I have never found a CI simulation that even comes close to how I hear with my CIs” – Mary Beth

Mary Beth from the USA found that“vocoder” recordingsdidn’t give her an accurate idea of what to expect. “I have never found a CI simulation that even comes close to how I hear with my CIs. I think the simulations all sound robotic and lacking in full tones,” she writes on theHearPeers forum.

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“I can recognize people I know just by hearing their voices. I can recognize singer’s voices as well in songs. I notice people’s accents. This is what I mean when I say things sound natural to me with my CI. There is no robotic, computerized, flat sound to the voices I hear,” explains Mary Bethin another thread.

“我可以给出的最好的例子是斯蒂芬霍金” - 特蕾莎

Mary Beth points out that it took months of training to hear “natural sound”, something which Teresa from Australia also experienced: “Just trying to describe to people what it sounded like was a little bit electronic and the best example I could give was Stephen Hawking. And everyone told me, especially, Alice, my audiologist, that it will get better. I sort of did not believe her in the beginning. I thought this is just what it is going to be.”

“But I started to notice that people who I was constantly in contact with like my mum and my partner started to sound more normal. They started to sound like themselves.

“爱丽丝保持对我说:”练习,练习,练习“。所以我会听音乐,去咖啡厅,只是为了我享受的正常活动。最终,几个月后,事情就开始了正常。“

“即使他们确实略有不同,就会脱离我认可的歌曲 - 克莱尔

Claire has also seen a huge change in how her cochlear implant sounds with music. “On my way home after the switch-on I decided to put some music on to see what the difference was. It was a massive disappointment. I could not understand or recognize any of my favourite songs. However, I didn’t let this get to me; as after all it’s a long learning process and I knew things would get better.”

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It didn’t take long for things to improve though: “After several weeks of using the implant sounds became more natural and I went back to listening to music,” saysClaire in her blog. “Straight away I recognized songs even though they did sound slightly different: I was hearing more of the music and instruments. I now enjoy music a lot more than I did before.”

“My beautiful wife’s voice sounded like Donald Duck” – Chuckie

Policeman Chuckie将他的初始激活描述为令人失望,writing that“The “tuning” of my current map was so far off that my beautiful wife’s voice sounded like Donald Duck and it was so grating to me”.

“Fortunately, my audiologist was AWESOME and worked with me for 2 days while we found a mapping strategy that sounded “normal” to me while my brain got used to the new method of information. I struggled with it for the first year but stuck with the program by regularly working on my rehab (speech therapy, etc.).”

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但他的坚持下去了:“春季的某个时候,我似乎有一个”a-ha!“瞬间和一切刚刚点击到位,从那以后我用植入物做得很好。“

“People started sounding like people” – Matt

For Matt, the first voice he heard after cochlear implant activation sounded more extra-terrestrial than human. “Suddenly I heard this noise. I wasn’t sure what it was, but it was something. I looked around searching for its source and realized it was a voice. A little, fuzzy, bubbly, gurgling alien voice,”he writes in his blog.

Thankfully for Matt, things quickly improved: “The alien voice started changing and becoming less alien-ish. Sounds started making sense and people started sounding like people. I was so amazed and so unbelievably happy!”

我的耳蜗植入之旅:带哔哔声!

Now he enjoys hearing even the most simple of sounds: “I tell people how utterly stunning the sound of cicadas at night are. How sweet it is to be able to hear the sound of the leaves rustling. How fascinating it is to listen to a puppy’s sleepy breathing. All those boring everyday sounds that people take for granted, they are breathtaking.”

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