It involves a reduction in sound level, speech understanding and hearing clarity.
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However, speech understanding without visual cues ( commonly called " open-set " speech recognition ) was generally poor.
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The limited speech understanding observed in NF2 ABI patients was thus thought to be due to negative factors related to NF2.
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The cluster deals with research into the improvement of speech understanding in background noise and has a funding of ?34 million.
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All three of these patients suffered bilateral damage to the auditory cortex which resulted in musical difficulties while speech understanding remained intact.
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In addition to improved speech understanding, it results in a natural sound with less distortion and feedback compared with conventional hearing aids.
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This was the first speech processing strategy to give speech understanding to severely-to-profoundly deaf people using electrical stimulation alone, and in combination with lipreading.
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Clark realised then that this was the breakthrough in providing speech understanding that everyone had been hoping for . " it was the moment I had been waiting for.
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However, new results in NF2 ABI patients have also showed excellent speech recognition, suggesting that the cause of improved speech understanding was not related to NF2 alone.
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Previously single-channel strategies had only shown a small improvement when electrical stimulation was used as a lip reading aid, but no speech understanding for electrical stimulation alone.