Study for people with Hearing Loss

Recruiting Not a phased study

Sources: ClinicalTrials.gov Checked: 11 October 2026 Not medical advice

This trial at a glance

Status Recruiting
Phase Not a phased study
Sponsor Cochlear
Registry number NCT06100393
Started 22 February 2024 Today 16 October 2026 Estimated completion 31 October 2026

Where this trial is running

Trial sites and the status recorded for each
SiteCityState or countryStatus at this site
Cochlear Melbourne Melbourne VIC Recruiting
HEARnet Clinical Studies Melbourne VIC Active not recruiting

voxsanity.com.au · trial sites from public registries · registry record synced 11 October 2026 · not medical advice

Who can join

Age 18 Years and over
Sex Anyone, regardless of sex
Healthy volunteers Not accepted
Enrolment target 150

The official eligibility criteria

Registry text, reproduced exactly. These are the words the trial's sponsor published on ClinicalTrials.gov. They have not been edited, shortened or rewritten, and they are written for researchers rather than for patients.

Inclusion Criteria:

* User of an approved Nucleus cochlear implant.

* User of the ACE (Advanced Combination Encoder) sound processing strategy.

* Aged 18 years or older (no upper age limit).

* Able to score 20% or more at +10 dB SNR or have an adaptive Speech Recognition Threshold (SRT) of 12 dB or less CI alone on a sentence in babble test.\*

* Fluent speaker in the language used to assess speech perception performance, as determined by the investigator.

* Willing and able to provide written informed consent.

* ≥3 months post cochlear implant activation

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable or unwilling to comply with the requirements of the clinical investigation as determined by the Investigator.

* Additional health factors, known to the investigator, that would prevent or restrict participation in the audiological evaluations.

* Investigator site personnel directly affiliated with this study and/or the investigator's immediate families; immediate family is defined as a spouse, parent, child, or sibling.

* Cochlear employees or employees of Contract Research Organizations or contractors engaged by Cochlear for the purposes of this investigation.

* Current participation, or participation in another interventional clinical study/trial in the past 30 days, involving an investigational drug or device (unless the other investigation was/is a Cochlear sponsored investigation and determined by the investigator or Sponsor to not impact this investigation).

Dates on the record

Started 22 February 2024
Estimated completion 31 October 2026
Registry last updated 14 August 2026
Checked by Voxsanity 11 October 2026

Results, publications and the official record

Sources and dates

  • ClinicalTrials.gov – the record this page reformats
  • ClinicalTrials.gov processing date: 14 August 2026.
  • This page last checked by Voxsanity: 11 October 2026.

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Letter for your doctor

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