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for about a month.
So my grandma,
she couldn't speak
English, so I had to
speak to her in Chinese.
But it's interesting how
it's-- when I talk to people,
like when I speak myself, I have
to remember how use the tones,
but if I listen to them, I can't
tell the difference between
tone.
So what I do is I read
their lips and listen.
And I use context clues
like so if the sound goes
with this sound,
so I think those
sounds form a certain word.
That's how I did,
but I believe I
can learn Chinese with
a matter of practice
and getting used to the sound.
PROFESSOR: Apparently,
cochlear implant users
have a lot of problems
with melodic intervals,
octave matches, and
tonal languages.
The temporal code
for frequency that
helps us appreciate
musical intervals
is not present at all
in any cochlear implant
scheme that's used now.
So you only have the place
code for sound frequencies,
you don't have the timing code
in current generation cochlear
implant users.
And so the goal,
remember, is to allow
the users to understand speech.
It's not in terms of
recognizing musical intervals.
Now, if cochlear implant
companies were based in China,
maybe the goal of
understanding Mandarin Chinese,
which is total, would be
more important, but so far,
that hasn't happened.
AUDIENCE: Are you
more comfortable
with speaking with people
or are you more comfortable
with not speaking with people?
SHEILA: Well, I'm
more comfortable using
sign language, but I don't mind
going up in front of people
and speaking.