[MAD-AS-HELL]

Indeed, this story is a bit perplexing. Not only can she understand what is said to her when her eyes are closed (you can’t lip read when your eyes are shut) but notice how she speaks perfectly. I have never heard a deaf person speak like she does. Her enunciation is PERFECT for a deaf person. Just seems odd if you ask me.

[Shannon]

Per the article:
In response to how well she speaks having never heard her own voice, she said she'd gotten by in life by reading lips. “My whole life I've been complimented on how well I speak,” she wrote. “I don't really have an answer for you other than I have always had a passion for reading, grammar, and English. My hearing loss was/is considered severe to profound. I've worked very hard to be able to interact and blend in…only thing I can say is ‘God is good.'”

[primatreat]

” Her enunciation is PERFECT for a deaf person. Just seems odd if you ask me.”

MY thoughts also. Unless you can hear your self talk.. Don’t know about the believable of that ad

[Nea Wood]

I wondered the same thing. If she’s never heard her own voice before, then she’s never heard anyone else’s, either. Yet her speech is great and she understands what the other woman says to her. I’m happy for the girl, as she’s obviously thrilled to have this device and she must believe it will help her in some way, but something about this story isn’t complete.

[equaviator]

“Indeed, this story is a bit perplexing. Not only can she understand what is said to her when her eyes are closed...but notice how she speaks perfectly....Her enunciation is PERFECT for a deaf person. Just seems odd if you ask me.”

My sister is profoundly deaf since birth. Her auditory nerves did not develop (left and right) and how she ever could develop the speech and listening skills is mainly due to her being a very intelligent person. She still reads lips but not nearly as much since having a cochlear implant at age 40. Her hearing and speech have improved quite a bit. I would love to hear my sister’s voice as she would sound as a hearing person. She does very well on the telephone and always has. The fact that she could use a telephone at all was always a big mystery to me and others in the family. I have looked into the Esteem and I don’t think my sister would be a candidate for it because of the nature of her deafness but if something else comes along that can do for her what the Esteem did for young lady in the video, I’m sure that she would experience the difference immediately and any observers would be hearing her again for the first time as she hears her own voice again for the first time. I believe that in my sister’s case, the changes would occur instantaneously. I’m sure of it.

[Lizavetta]

I thought the same. Don’t those who are deaf or near deaf have a quacking-like sound to their voices?