Sound quality from cochlear implants plays a much larger role in daily functioning and well-being.
An illustration of a cochlear implant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health. Credit: NIH This image is a work of the National Institutes of Health, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made as part of an employee’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cochlear_implant.jpg)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2025 – More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated through speech recognition tests, and despite how widespread they are, CI sound quality is typically not considered an indicator of users’ quality of life.
In JASA Express Letters, published on behalf of the Acoustical Society of America by AIP Publishing, researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ohio State University evaluated the relationships between sound quality, speech recognition, and…click to read more
From: JASA Express Letters
Article: Sound quality, not speech recognition, explains cochlear implant-related quality of life outcomes
DOI: 10.1121/10.0039069