I am not an expert but it might be the problem with microphone or sound processing and not actual noise. For example, my smartphone mic picks up lot of noise from wind even if the wind is not strong, while human's ears somehow reduce or suppress the wind noise.

Also, modern smart speakers use arrays of microphones and medical devices might be using some outdated tech.

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y1n0 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I haven’t kept up to date with cochlear implants, but their capabilities used to be pretty crude. The bitdepth of sound being profoundly reduced to just 5 or 6 bits equivalent.

It wouldn’t take much to just sound like jumbled noise.

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silver92bullet 6 hours ago | parent [-]

From what I have been told by my father in law it sounds very digitized on his implant. I think it takes some level of therapy for the brain to build the pathways for it to not sound like a jumble of noise anyways and actually interpret speech. It is incapable of really giving the richness of music or other forms of noises. Interestingly enough his implant can connect to bluetooth so if he wanted to he can listen to podcasts.

	▲	gwbas1c 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Interestingly enough his implant can connect to bluetooth so if he wanted to he can listen to podcasts. At that point does it sound better or the same? That's how to know if it's an issue with the microphone or the "everything else."

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plastic-enjoyer 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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