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    Speech processing for cochlear implants
    Tong, Y. C. ; Millar, J. B. ; Blamey, P. J. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Dowell, R. C. ; Patrick, J. F. ; Seligman, P. M. (JAI Press Ltd, 1992)
    The cochlear implant is a hearing prosthesis designed to replace the function of the ear. The operation of the prosthesis can be described as a sequence of four functions: the processing of the acoustic signal received by a microphone; the transfer of the processed signal through the skin; the creation of neural activity in the auditory nerve; and the integration of the experience of this neural activity into the perceptual and cognitive processing of the implantee.
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    A multiple-channel cochlear implant and wearable speech-processor: an audiological evaluation
    Tong, Y. C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Dowell, R. C. ; Martin, L. F. ; Seligman, P. M. ; Patrick, J. F. ( 1981)
    Standard audiological tests were administered to a totally deft multiple-channel cochlear implant patient with a wearable speech-processor in a monitored sound field under the following conditions: a wearable unit activated alone (WA), lipreading with the wearable unit off (LA), and wearable unit activated in combination with lipreading (WL). Thresholds obtained for narrow-band noise signals indicated that the wearable unit allowed the patient to detect a variety of sounds at different frequencies. The results obtained in closed-set word tests and open-set word and sentence tests showed significant improvements in word and sentence scores from LA to WL. In the open-se (C.I.D) sentence tests, the patient scored 22% for LA and 76% for WL. The WL score of 76% correlates with a satisfactory performance in understanding connected speech. The patient also scored 30% correct in a test involving the recognition of environmental sounds.
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    Clinical comparison of open-set speech perception with MSP and WSPIII speech processors and preliminary results for the new SPEAK processor [Abstracts]
    Whitford, Lesley A. ; Partick, James F. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Dowell, Richard C. ; Marsh, Michael A. ; HOLLOW, RODNEY ; Blamey, Peter J. ; Pyman, Brian C. ; Seligman, Peter M. ( 1993)
    There are several studies which compare the WSP III (FOIF11F2) and MSP (Multipeak) speech processors for the Nucleus multiple-channel cochlear implant in small, controlled groups of patients. In the present study we were interested in the benefits of open set speech perception provided by the MSP over the prior WSP III speech processor in a large, unselected clinical population.