Advanced beamformers for cochlear implant users: acute measurement of speech perception in challenging listening conditions

A Buechner, KH Dyballa, P Hehrmann, S Fredelake… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Objective To investigate the performance of monaural and binaural beamforming technology
with an additional noise reduction algorithm, in cochlear implant recipients. Method This …

Speech understanding and listening effort in cochlear implant users–microphone beamformers lead to significant improvements in noisy environments

A Büchner, M Schwebs, T Lenarz - Cochlear Implants International, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: To evaluate the effect of microphone directionality, ie beamforming, on speech
understanding in noise with the SONNET audio processor. Methods: Speech reception …

Fixed and adaptive beamforming improves speech perception in noise in cochlear implant recipients equipped with the MED-EL SONNET audio processor

C Honeder, R Liepins, C Arnoldner, H Šinkovec… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Objective To determine the impact of the fixed and adaptive beamforming technology of the
new MED-EL SONNET cochlear implant audio processor on speech perception in noise …

Speech reception threshold benefits in cochlear implant users with an adaptive beamformer in real life situations

G Geißler, I Arweiler, P Hehrmann… - Cochlear implants …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Objectives To compare the Naida CI UltraZoom adaptive beamformer and T-Mic
settings in a real life environment. Methods Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were …

Comparing binaural pre-processing strategies II: Speech intelligibility of bilateral cochlear implant users

RM Baumgärtel, H Hu, M Krawczyk-Becker… - Trends in …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Several binaural audio signal enhancement algorithms were evaluated with respect to their
potential to improve speech intelligibility in noise for users of bilateral cochlear implants …

Speech understanding in background noise with the two-microphone adaptive beamformer BEAM™ in the Nucleus Freedom™ cochlear implant system

A Spriet, L Van Deun, K Eftaxiadis, J Laneau… - Ear and …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Objective: This paper evaluates the benefit of the two-microphone adaptive beamformer
BEAM™ in the Nucleus Freedom™ cochlear implant (CI) system for speech understanding …

Benefit of a commercially available cochlear implant processor with dual-microphone beamforming: a multi-center study

J Wolfe, A Parkinson, EC Schafer, J Gilden… - Otology & …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective Previous research shows that cochlear implant users experience significant
difficulty with speech perception in noisy listening situations. There is a paucity of research …

Beamforming and single-microphone noise reduction: effects on signal-to-noise ratio and speech recognition of bimodal cochlear implant users

HC Stronks, JJ Briaire, JHM Frijns - Trends in Hearing, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We have investigated the effectiveness of three noise-reduction algorithms, namely an
adaptive monaural beamformer (MB), a fixed binaural beamformer (BB), and a single …

Benefit of the UltraZoom beamforming technology in noise in cochlear implant users

I Mosnier, N Mathias, J Flament, D Amar… - European Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
The objectives of the study were to demonstrate the audiological and subjective benefits of
the adaptive UltraZoom beamforming technology available in the Naída CI Q70 sound …

Speech-in-noise recognition with more realistic implementations of a binaural cochlear-implant sound coding strategy inspired by the medial olivocochlear reflex

EA Lopez-Poveda, A Eustaquio-Martín… - Ear and …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Cochlear implant (CI) users continue to struggle understanding speech in noisy
environments with current clinical devices. We have previously shown that this outcome can …