{"id":4994,"date":"2013-10-18T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2013-10-18T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:09:14","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":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iStock_000004008830XSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4996 alignleft\" alt=\"Relaxed young woman listening woman in park\" src=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iStock_000004008830XSmall-300x199.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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<p>Cochlear implants allow hearing impaired people to hear speech, however the implants are not sensitive to pitch. \u00a0Engineers 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 \u00a0advancement may also help those with cochlear implants hear speech better in noisy environments by differentiating the different pitches of the people talking.<\/p>\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>\t\t<\/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. \u00a0Engineers 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":"","_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":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"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}]}}