How people with cochlear implants hear speech and surrounding sounds in noise
Compares hearing of speech and background sounds in adults with cochlear implants and typical hearing.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Institut Pasteur
- Where
- Paris, FranceSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- MeasurIng and Restoring Auditory Awareness for Cochlear Implant Listeners in noisE
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 50 people, planned
- Started
- Mar 2025
- Planned end
- Oct 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Speech in noise comprehension test
- Objective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise
- Subjective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise
- Record updated
- 3 March 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who are native French speakers. It wants people with cochlear implants and people with normal hearing, for hearing tests in noise.
- Age
- 18 years or older.
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- People with cochlear implants must have used the implant for at least 18 months. They must understand speech normally in silence. People in the normal hearing group must have a mean hearing loss of no more than 30 dB HL. They must also understand speech in noise normally (SNR between -8 dB and -4dB inclusive).
- Earlier treatment
- People in the implant group must already have a cochlear implant, used for at least 18 months.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Not a native French speaker
- Under guardianship or curatorship
- Deprived of liberty by a court or administrative decision
- Under legal protection
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- For all participants:
- 18 years of age or over,
- Native French speaker,
- Having given their consent to take part in the research; For cochlear implant patients:
- Adult implanted and declaring that they have been using the implant for at least 18 months,
- Normal speech audiometry in silence; For controls reporting normal hearing:
- Normal tonal audiometry (defined as a mean tonal loss not exceeding 30 decibel (dB) HL)
- Normal speech audiometry in noise (SNR between -8 dB and -4dB inclusive)
Who cannot take part
- Be under guardianship or curatorship,
- deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision, or subject to legal protection,
- Non- native French speaker
Where in France
- CEntre de Recherche et d'Innovation en Audiologie HumaineParis, FranceContact: Clément Gaultier, PhDNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this interventional study is to describe how people with cochlear implants perceive the perceive speech in noise and their sound environment on adults who are native French speakers with typical hearing or with cochlear implant(s).
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The measures and strategies developed in this project could benefit all current and future cochlear implant wearers by improving their perception of the sound environment and their quality of life on a daily basis.
Researchers will compare normal hearing participant and participants with cochlear implant to describe the speech in noise and their perception of the sound environment.
Participants will perform audiological tests to assess their perception of the sound environment, with and without speech enhancement.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Participants with cochlear implantTreatment being tested
Treatment: Speech in noise comprehension test, Objective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise, and Subjective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise
- Normal hearing participantsExisting treatment, for comparison
Treatment: Speech in noise comprehension test, Objective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise, and Subjective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- MeasurIng and Restoring Auditory Awareness for Cochlear Implant Listeners in noisE
- Plain-language title
- How people with cochlear implants hear speech and surrounding sounds in noiseGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 3 March 2025