Introduction Due to the changes in guidelines for cochlear implants and demographic development, more people get implants. An implantation requires a close-meshed audiological logopedic aftercare. Hearing therapy rehabilitation currently great personnel effort is time consuming. speech can be supported by digital hearing training programs. However, apps on market are limited decree personalized...

The authors have studied the effect of AllHear cochlear implants on tinnitus. We describe five cases of deaf patients with tinnitus and show that the implant device had a good effect on tinnitus in four. We also discuss one case in which the tinnitus was caused by electrical stimulation. The authors conclude that AllHear cochlear implants have a good effect on tinnitus in the majority of patients.

Users of cochlear implants experience difficulties in listening to music. Improved processing of music signals for hearing implants requires an accurate and robust estimation of the musical pitch. This paper presents a comparative study of two different signal processing strategies for estimating the fundamental frequencies (F0) of almost-periodic input signals. Their performance with various i...

Cochlear implants are devices designed to provide a measure of hearing to the deaf. Most deaf individuals have lost the ability to translate sound into the patterns of electric activity normally present on the 30,000 fibers of the auditory nerve. Because these patterns of activity are the inputs to the brain that result in sound sensation, cochlear implants deliver electric stimuli to these fib...

Pitch is important for speech and music perception, and may also play a crucial role in our ability to segregate sounds that arrive from different sources. This article reviews some basic aspects of pitch coding in the normal auditory system and explores the implications for pitch perception in people with hearing impairments and cochlear implants. Data from normal-hearing listeners suggest tha...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether it is clinically effective and cost-effective to provide (i) a unilateral cochlear implant for severely to profoundly deaf people (using or not using hearing aids), and (ii) a bilateral cochlear implant for severely to profoundly deaf people with a single cochlear implant (unilateral or unilateral plus hearing aid). DATA SOURCES Main electronic databases [MED...