{"id":4994,"date":"2013-10-18T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:30:16","slug":"uw-engineers-advance-hearing-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/uw-engineers-advance-hearing-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Engineers advance Hearing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kplu.org\/post\/uw-engineers-design-could-help-deaf-people-enjoy-music#.Uly_6QA64-M.email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPLU<\/a> recently reported that Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a way for those with cochlear implants to enjoy music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cochlear implants allow hearing impaired people to hear speech, however the implants are not sensitive to pitch. &nbsp;Engineers have achieved the affect of changing pitch by adjusting the algorithm used to encode the sound. The new algorithm varies the pulse rates of the implants in a way that convey&#8217;s pitch. In addition to hearing music, the &nbsp;advancement may also help those with cochlear implants hear speech better in noisy environments by differentiating the different pitches of the people talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kplu.org\/post\/uw-engineers-design-could-help-deaf-people-enjoy-music#.Uly_6QA64-M.email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story and sample the pitch differences.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KPLU recently reported that Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a way for those with cochlear implants to enjoy music. Cochlear implants allow hearing impaired people to hear speech, however the implants are not sensitive to pitch. &nbsp;Engineers have achieved the affect of changing pitch by adjusting the algorithm used to encode the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12263,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}