Re: [AUDITORY] How to speak to people about hearing loss and more

[Bob Masta <audio@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 Oct 2013 at 15:04, Kevin Austin wrote:

> 
> The new [sic] generation is in the middle of this "plague of silence".
> 
> Implants?
> 
> what do they sound like?
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpKKYBkJ9Hw
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00WOao4kpwM
> 
> There may be examples of 128 and 256 channel
> reconstruction somewhere out there. Consider that 256
> channels only yields about 1/3 semitone bandwidth,
> probably ok for speech and autotuned music.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvHmrShrmaM 


My understanding (which may be a few years out of date) is 
that cochlear implants rarely get more than 8 or so useful 
channels in actual patients, no matter how many channels 
there are on the prosthesis itself.  Partly this has to do 
with insertion and positioning issues, but mostly it's due 
to the fact that the closer the electrodes are spaced, the 
closer they have to be to their targets in order to be 
separately resolved... and you just can't get all that 
close.  

Best regards,


Bob Masta
 
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