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Cochlear implants are a minor, complicated electronic gadget that may offer assistance to afford a feel of sound to an individual who is significantly hard of hearing or essentially tough-of-hearing. Unlike, cochlear implant does not simply make bigger sound. They imitate herbal listening for the purpose of the internal ear thru electronic simulation. The implant consists of an outside element that is in the backside ear and second part which is surgically located underneath the skin. Both these gears are coupled with the usage of an effective magnet. The outside setup of a cochlear implant is made up of three parts such as microphone, speech processor and transmitter. The microphone and speech processor are bounded collectively in a small unit that appears to be at the back-of-the-ear hearing useful resource. A small wire connects them and the transmitter. The transmitter is placed over an internal part of the tool. The inner part of implant accommodates a receiver (which is located below skin at temporal bone) and one or greater electrode arrays. In this paper, the proposed system has been simulated in MATLAB/Simulink, and the experimental setup has been implemented to verify the results.
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Maheswari, K.T., Baranikumar, R., Lavanya, D., Nandhakumar, A., Srinivasan, M. (2021). Audio Signal Processing for Cochlear Implants. In: Kumaresan, G., Shanmugam, N.S., Dhinakaran, V. (eds) Advances in Materials Research. ICAMR 2019. Springer Proceedings in Materials, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8319-3_9
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