Listening to speech in an environment with reverberation can be challenging for both the
normal and impaired auditory system. However, it has been shown for both normal-and
impaired-hearing listeners that it is the late reflections that are responsible for degrading
intelligibility, whereas early reflections actually aid intelligibility by increasing the effective
signal-to-noise ratio. Contrastingly, studies conducted with cochlear implant (CI) recipients
have suggested that CI recipients have almost no tolerance for reverberation and that they …