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- English-speaking cochlear implant users rely on talker sex cues for speech segregation but struggle with spatial cues.
- Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users, however, show a stronger ability to utilize spatial cues, especially when using both hearing aids and cochlear implants (bimodal listening).
- The study highlights the differences in speech recognition abilities between English and Mandarin CI users, particularly regarding their use of tonal language cues.
Article Abstract
English-speaking bimodal and bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users can segregate competing speech using talker sex cues but not spatial cues. While tonal language experience allows for greater utilization of talker sex cues for listeners with normal hearing, tonal language benefits remain unclear for CI users. The present study assessed the ability of Mandarin-speaking bilateral and bimodal CI users to recognize target sentences amidst speech maskers that varied in terms of spatial cues and/or talker sex cues, relative to the target. Different from English-speaking CI users, Mandarin-speaking CI users exhibited greater utilization of spatial cues, particularly in bimodal listening.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10926108 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0025058 | DOI Listing |
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