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Optimizing cochlear implant speech performance.

Margaret W Skinner
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Results of studies performed in our laboratory suggest that cochlear implant recipients understand speech best if the following speech processor parameters are individually chosen for each person: minimum and maximum stimulation levels on each electrode in the speech processor program (MAP), stimulation rate, and speech coding strategy. If these and related parameters are chosen to make soft sounds (from approximately 100 to 6,000 Hz) audible at as close to 20 dB hearing level as possible and loud sounds not too loud, recipients have the opportunity to hear speech in everyday life situations that are of key importance to children who are learning language and to all recipients in terms of ease of communication.

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Auditory ThresholdCochlear ImplantsDeafnessHearingHumansLoudness PerceptionPhoneticsSpeech PerceptionJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.Review

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Margaret W Skinner. 2003. Optimizing cochlear implant speech performance.. https://doi.org/10.1177/00034894031120s903

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