Captioning speech in real time so hard of hearing people can read the words a speaker says almost as soon as they are said.

A counseling therapy that can be used for people suffering from tinnitus. It includes four main techniques—cognitive, distraction, relaxation and imagination.

A coding strategy is a series of calculations used by the cochlear implant system to measure the sound that is presented to the microphone, analyze its components, and then determine which electrodes should be stimulated and how they should be stimulated to best represent the original sound. Next, it generates a code that is set […]

The hearing system of your inner ear consisting of the cochlea and the auditory nerve.

Sometimes called the auditory nerve or the acoustic nerve. One of the two branches of the eighth cranial nerve. It conducts the hearing signals from the inner ear to the brain. (See also Eighth Cranial Nerve.)

A device that substitutes for damaged (dead) hair cells of the inner ear. It consists of an electrode array that is surgically implanted in the cochlea. It delivers electrical signals to the auditory nerve from an external processor, enabling people with severe to profoundly hearing loss to perceive sound again. Cochlear implants are an option if […]