{"id":9291,"date":"2014-05-22T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:17:32","slug":"an_approximation_of_what_life_sounds_like_through_a_cochlear_implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/05\/22\/an_approximation_of_what_life_sounds_like_through_a_cochlear_implant\/","title":{"rendered":"An Approximation of What Life Sounds Like Through a Cochlear Implant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/60167\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Testing, testing, one, two, three.  Ha!  It\u2019s working fine!  Absolutely no alterations necessary!  No adjustments needed.  We don\u2019t need to change anything in the potentiometer, everything is just fine.  We are in Los Angeles, ladies and gentlemen.  We are out here on the Left Coast today and tomorrow.  It\u2019s time for a tune-up on <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9407\">my new right-side cochlear implant.<\/a>  Have to do that frequently when they\u2019re new and get activated, and the fact that frequent tune-ups are necessary is a good sign.  It means that progress is being made and the program needs to be adjusted to accommodate the new progress. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>Basically, they\u2019re gonna be able to pump a bit more volume to it without everything sounding distorted.  I still have the chipmunk effect.  It\u2019s still amazing, folks. I was writing to some people last night updating them on this, and I\u2019m amazed that new implant by itself on the right side is usable.  I use it.  It\u2019s gotten better.  I mean, it\u2019s usable now, but there\u2019s still no comparison the way the left sounds by itself.  The volume is still very much lower, it\u2019s fuzzier, and just everybody, the chipmunk speed, it\u2019s just incredible.  I put the left side on and magic happens.  It\u2019s a testament to my brain, it has to be.  (laughing) <\/line><BR\/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/00WOao4kpwM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/line><\/p>\n<p>I forgot to send this up to Koko at the website.  I was perusing my tech blogs in a moment of idle hobby time, and there was a story at one of the blogs. Apparently some audiologists think they have found a way to let people who can hear normally hear what a cochlear implant sounds like.  It\u2019s about a five-minute video, and they use a series of tones, computer generated, that sound as they do to you, and then the same tones as they sound to an average cochlear implant user.  I listened to it. Of course I\u2019m hearing everything through a cochlear implant.  I hear the difference in the two, but I will not hear it the way people who can hear normally will hear it, but there\u2019s a distinct difference. <\/p>\n<p>You know, it\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s always amazed me about these.  The inventors, the audiologists, the tech people that build these implants have never heard what they sound like.  They can all hear.  They have no idea.  It would be like designing a TV set and never having seen what it looks like and then being able to improve it every year and all you\u2019ve got to go on is what shows up on a meter or a graph or the feedback you get from patients, which is gonna be all over the place.  I mean, most people are not able to describe things anyway. <\/p>\n<p>And then you add everybody that has an implant, you\u2019re gonna have that many different attempts to explain how things sound.  Like when I tell these audiologists that people sound like chipmunks, I can tell they don\u2019t believe me.  They can\u2019t comprehend chipmunks. There\u2019s only one thing that sound like a chipmunk, it\u2019s the chipmunks. And you have to do special things to make the chipmunk sound like they do and I\u2019m telling you everybody sounds like a chipmunk to me. You can see they just kind of nod their head like I\u2019m a little insane, just maybe two steps from the gentlemen in the white coats and the little bus.  But there\u2019s nothing they can do. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always amazed me that they\u2019ve been able to invent and design and perfect a product that they\u2019ve never heard.  (interruption)  Well, they can appreciate it because they know it works.  They\u2019re able to communicate with people, but they have no idea what it sounds like.  And yet they invented it.  Anyway, the link I found &#8212; I\u2019ve got it here, I\u2019ll send it up to the website \u2019cause you might be interested in it.  It was at one of the Gawker websites.  You gotta be careful, folks.  Don\u2019t go anyplace else other than this one link otherwise &#8212; (laughing) &#8212; you\u2019re gonna think very bad thoughts of me if you start wandering around this site. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9407\"><img id=\"eZObject_91551\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushHearing2.jpg\"\/><\/a>This is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-00woao4kpwm-t-199-being-1580015101\">Gizmodo site<\/a>.  The Gizmodo, you might recall, they\u2019re the ones that ended up with the stolen iPhone 4 way back when the Apple tech left it in a bar. Somebody found it in the bar and the guys as Gizmodo bought it and Jobs went on a crusade to get it back.  I think it was the 4.  Yeah, it was the 4, not the 4S.  So that\u2019s who these guys are.  They\u2019re part of the Gawker &#8212; you gotta be real, real careful. I mean, I don\u2019t care.  I want you to know that my search term was &#8220;cochlear implants,&#8221; how I found it.  (interruption) Come on, Snerdley.  I was not searching the deep, dark corners of this place.  Anyway.  I\u2019ll find it.  There may be some other places, might even be a YouTube link to this. And it\u2019s not captions, by the way.  It spells out what\u2019s being said.  So I\u2019ll send that up during the break and you can check it out when you have time. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we\u2019re here, telephone stays same, 800-282-2882.  The e-mail address, <a xhtml:title=\"mailto:ElRushbo@eibnet.com\" href=\"mailto:elrushbo@eibnet.com\">ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I have to tell you, folks, since I\u2019m on this stuff, I have to tell you I\u2019m kind of excited here.  Something\u2019s happened for the first time in nine months that has never happened before. And I\u2019ve been waiting for it to happen for nine months, and it finally has and I\u2019m so excited I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s gonna break. <\/p>\n<p>You know, I\u2019m fascinated with the Next Destination feature that\u2019s part of the new iOS 7 notification center.  This is their attempt at Google Now, where you collect enough data in the phone where you go, frequent locations, and after it learns enough of the data, it will think it knows where you\u2019re going next and tell you how long it will take you to get there. And if you click on that little message, it gives you a map of the fastest travel time. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been coming out to LA since September when these new phones were released, coming out to Los Angeles since September, four or five visits, nine months, and some of the data is just now starting to show up.  I\u2019ve always been amazed, it can\u2019t possibly have been designed to require nine months of data collection to work.  But yet that\u2019s been the case.  It took three weeks of going back and forth, home and office, for those locations to show up.  All of a sudden today my phones know where I\u2019m going after the radio program.  But I haven\u2019t been to that location in a long time, so I don\u2019t know how it knows.  I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s hooked into my calendar like Google Now has. I don\u2019t think it has. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m a little jazzed.  This is just a tiny little hobby of mine, and this tech thing is working for the first time as I think it was supposed to.  (interruption)  (Laughing) No.  I\u2019m not going to TMZ.  No, no.  The location\u2019s not TMZ.  It\u2019s a doctor\u2019s office.  The phone knows I\u2019m going to the doctor\u2019s office after the show.  I haven\u2019t been to the doctor\u2019s office out here in a month.  It hasn\u2019t been collecting data that fast.  (interruption)  What?  Yeah, I know. <\/p>\n<p>Well, they\u2019re talking about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11108\">TMZ waiting outside<\/a> restaurants and my friends stranding me there.  Yeah, they take an alternate exit.  I think they\u2019re right behind me, and they\u2019re not. I\u2019m walking out and there are the TMZ cameras.  The phone\u2019s not gonna take me there.  I\u2019ve already got that worked out. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s five minutes of an attempt by a professional audiologist, scientist, doctor &#8212; guy wears a white coat &#8212; to tell people who do not have cochlear implants what they sound like, what things sound like to people who use them.  I listened to it, and again, I\u2019m hearing the whole thing through my implant so I really can\u2019t tell you how accurate it is. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the thing.  I\u2019m still hearing it all through the implant, but I did notice a difference in what they claim is normal speech and the speech that they have re-created, processed through a cochlear implant.  So I wanted to let you know that that is up there.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Testing, testing, one, two, three. Ha! It\u2019s working fine! Absolutely no alterations necessary! No adjustments needed. We don\u2019t need to change anything in the potentiometer, everything is just fine. We are in Los Angeles, ladies and gentlemen. We are out here on the Left Coast today and tomorrow. 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