Abstract: A method for speech conversion in an artificial auris interna and an artificial auris interna can be capable of providing speech near to natural speech to a person using the artificial auris interna and reproducing natural fluctuation at random with a value near to the periodicity unique to each channel. Within a signal frame, speech information can be distinguished according to each frequency band by using band pass filters. Channel information on the corresponding frequency band can be added to the speech information. For each channel, speech information having a large signal level within one channel is left so that the number of stimulus pulses can be adjusted to be a frequency allowed for one channel. From all the speech information left for each channel, the speech information having a large signal level is left so that the number of stimulus pulses is adjusted to be a frequency allowed for the entire channel.

Abstract: A cochlear implant and a method of speech conversion in the cochlear implant which can provide a user with more natural-sounding reproduced speech and can regenerate a natural variation at a value near the natural period of respective channels. A method of speech conversion in a cochlear implant in which an electrode array of a plurality of electrodes is arranged within a cochlea, electrically stimulation pulses are generated by transmitting speech information sampled via a microphone to the electrodes, and the acoustic sense is reinforced by transmitting the speech information to the cochlea as electrically stimulation pulses.