NCT07323862

Assessment of a Method to Improve Cochlear Implant Users' Speech Perception in Noisy Environments While Maintaining Their Ability to Determine Where a Sound Originates From

Spatially Transparent Binaural Beamforming for Noise Reduction for Cochlear Implant Processors

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if a new algorithm can improve speech perception for cochlear implant users. The main questions it aims to answer \[is/are\]: * Does the algorithm improve speech perception in noisy environments? * Does the algorithm allow listeners to determine where a sound is coming from? Participants will * Listen to and repeat sentences presented in the presence of noise * Indicate the location that sounds originated from

Conditions

• Cochlear Implant Users

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Modifying audio input for cochlear implant processor	Sound will be preprocessed with different beamformer algorithms and presented either through the auxiliary input port or via a streaming device to the participants' cochlear implant processor

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-01
• Primary completion: 2026-08-31
• Completion: 2026-08-31
• First posted: 2026-01-07
• Last updated: 2026-01-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study