 Mostly not. The sound samples you can find online try to simulate what a cochlear implant sounds like, but they often rely on inappropriate technology and depict the sounds as quite robotic and noisy. Our research shows that, thankfully, they don't come anywhere close to what a medial cochlear implant really sounds like. Well we have some really interesting research on this from CI recipients with single-sided deafness. This shows that users often describe their cochlear implants as sounding somewhat muffled and especially recipients with shorter electrodes even frequently describe their cochlear implants as sounding a bit like Mickey Mouse. Thankfully that isn't the case with medial users because the design of our cochlear implants mimic natural hearing. There are even some medial recipients who don't notice any difference between the normal hearing ear and their implanted ear. One major factor is the length of the electrode. Every tone has a specific place along the cochlear so it is essential to stimulate the entire cochlear with an electrode array. Using a shorter electrode often results in sounds being tinier and less full and voices that sound high-pitched. Another important factor is sound coding. Sound is processed differently deeper into the cochlear so to follow natural hearing sound coding needs to take this into account which our technology does. So medial cochlear implants which have both long electrode arrays and the right sound coding are able to offer the closest to natural hearing to our recipients.