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    A multiple-channel cochlear implant: evaluation using speech tracking
    Martin, Lois F. A. ; Tong, Yit Chow ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1981)
    Two totally deaf patients who had received multiple-channel cochlear implants were tested using a speech "tracking" procedure in which they had to repeat verbatim passages of connected discourse. Their performance was assessed by calculating the tracking rate (words per minute) each session. Testing was carried out under two conditions - lipreading along and lipreading in conjunction with a multiple-channel cochlear implant and laboratory speech processor. Lipreading with the cochlear implant increased the tracking rates by a factor of four for one patient and by a factor of two for the other when compared with lipreading alone.
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    The rehabilitation of patients with a total hearing loss using a multiple-channel cochlear implant [Abstract]
    Martin, L. F. A. ; Tong, Y. C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1980)
    Two profoundly deaf patients who have multiple-channel cochlear implants receive speech information through a speech processor. The speech processor encodes second formant and fundamental frequency information. Rehabilitation is concerned with evaluating the speech processor and training patients to improve speech perception. The patients have scores up to 37% and 27% on AB word lists, and 36% and 34% on NAL Everyday Sentences using the cochlear implant alone and repetition of the stimuli. However, to gain a better insight into the capabilities of the speech processor and to demonstrate its potential for the patients more investigative procedures have been used. These include the speech tracking method described by DeFillipo and Scott (1978) using the cochlear implant in conjunction with speech reading. Results indicate that patients have gained a two-fold and four-fold improvement in tracking rates (words per minute) using speech reading and the cochlear implant as opposed to speech reading alone.