Trailer – Transcript
Karen Gordon
Hello and welcome to the Hear Here podcast.
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Blake Papsin
We might have to socialize locally and educate digitally. We’re killing this planet flying around in airplanes to visit with each other.
Karen Gordon
So, you’re saying with this podcast we’re saving the planet.
Blake Papsin
That’s exactly what I’m saying
Sharon Cushing
“How does binaural hearing help you?”
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Ruth Litovsky
But, let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater, t
Sharon Cushing
There’s gotta be a better way and we just don’t know it yet, I feel like that’s the-the nut to crack.
Ruth Litovsky
Conversations have been very, I think, helpful and deep and steady
Karen Gordon
What do we connect with most about the human voice?
Deniz Baskent
Our body can produce that. And then we also develop a system that can receive it, code it, encode it and then extract meaning out of it. So, I find the whole chain of communication very, very intriguing.
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Karen Gordon
Is it an actual robot?
Deniz Baskent
Sam and Robin, they’re Android robotss so they really look like little children, they are cute, It’s a, a machine so it has no risk of COVID for anyone.
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Renee Gifford
I mean, we really have come a long way, haven’t we?
Blake Papsin
The upshot is that, the, um, you know, the, the, the smartest engineer is not nearly as smart as the dumbest cochlea and auditory system.
Renee Gifford
I was hook, line and sinker pulled in, I mean, it was just, fascinating, and that continues to motivate me
Karen Gordon
I’m always amazed that we even thought about combining residual and electric hearing.
Renee Gifford
If you can just detect or have access to fundamental frequency information, even that just cue alone, it can be so, so powerful for that listener.
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Sharon Cushing
It sounds like such a wonderful thing to do, right? Use what you’ve got that works well and then supplement what isn’t working.
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Karen Gordon
And as somebody with hearing loss, were you surprised, um, that you didn’t know everything there was to know about hearing already?
Lina Reiss
The hearing loss was not the only aspect. It was also learning how to lead the lab as a woman with the right balance and temperament.
Blake Papsin
people always said, well, what’s the outcome that you’re talking about, and I said, well, I don’t know if they’re happy in their life.
Sharon Cushing
that’s a moving target, right? ‘Cause you know what was enough 10 years ago, or 20 years ago, is very different than what we would consider enough now
Viji Easwar
As soon as you put a hearing aid on, is the brain signal getting stronger?
Blake Papsin
Give me the joy thing, that means I understood everything and I’m comfortable on Earth right now. That’s the one I want, I want the joy wave. Program the implants to give joy!
Karen Gordon
She literally moved all over the globe to pursue the scientific career.
Viji Easwar
I mean, obviously change is difficult. It’s helpful to remember that it’s all happening for a reason, it’s all going to pay off.
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Karen Gordon
You can catch other episodes of the Hear Here podcast, there’s a link on our website, search Archie’s Cochlear Implant Lab Sickkids Research Institute, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Hear Here podcast is put together by me, Doctor Karen Gordon, with my colleagues at the hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, Doctors Blake Papsin and Sharon Cushing with a tremendous production and advisory team Sofia Olaizola, Rachel Bedder, and Maria Khan. Our wonderful Hear Here podcast music was composed and performed by Doctor Blake Papsin.
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