How does a cochlear implant work? Most common question asked 🦻🫶🏼 hope everyone is having a lovely week xxxx ⠀ here is more of the scientific way of explaining that i got from NDCS website 🤍⠀ 1. ⁣The microphone of the cochlear implant picks up the sound and the speech processor converts the sound waves into a digital code which is then sent to the transmitter coil.⠀ 2. The transmitter coil sends the coded signal through the skin to the implanted receiver which is located just under the skin.