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Train your hearing.
Upgrade your circuits.
After a cochlear implant, your brain has to relearn how to hear β and that takes deliberate practice. CI-borg Training turns that practice into short, adaptive, genuinely fun listening sessions you can do anywhere.
Built for CI recipients, by people who care about hearing rehabilitation.
15+ hours
of structured listening practice is when research shows skills start carrying over to everyday conversation.
3β5 sessions
a week is the clinically recommended rhythm β and streaks, levels, and daily goals help you actually keep it.
100% free
No subscription, no locked features, no specific implant brand required. Rehabilitation shouldn't have a paywall.
Six ways to sharpen your listening
Every exercise follows the same clinical hierarchy audiologists use β from detecting sounds to understanding full sentences β and every one adapts to your current level.
Environmental Sounds
Recognize the sounds of daily life β doorbells, traffic, running water β the foundation every other listening skill builds on.
Word Identification
Pick the word you heard from a set of choices. Starts with clearly distinct words and works toward tricky minimal pairs like "bat" and "pat."
Open-Set Recognition
Hear a word with no choices to lean on and type what you heard. Answers are scored by how close they sound, so near-misses still count.
Sentence Keywords
Follow whole sentences and pull out the words that matter β the skill that carries over to real conversation.
Speech in Noise
Background noise is woven into exercises as an adaptive difficulty layer, because quiet rooms are rare and noisy ones are the real challenge.
Nemesis Battles
Your practice history reveals the sound contrast that trips you up most. Face it head-on in focused battles and defeat it for good.
Training that knows your sounds
Cochlear implant users don't struggle with hearing in general β they struggle with specific sound contrasts, like /b/ versus /p/ or /l/ versus /r/. CI-borg Training tracks your accuracy on each contrast individually and steers practice toward the ones that need it most.
- Phoneme mastery map β see your progress on every sound contrast at a glance.
- Adaptive difficultyβ word similarity and background noise adjust automatically so you're always challenged, never overwhelmed.
- Streaks, levels & achievements β earn XP for accuracy and consistency, and evolve your CI-borg avatar as you level up.
- No leaderboardsβ every hearing journey is different. You compete with yesterday's you, not with strangers.
Illustration of the mastery map β your real map is built from your own practice.
Getting started takes minutes
Connect your processor
Stream audio from your phone or computer directly to your sound processor via Bluetooth for the cleanest possible signal β or use headphones.
Practice a short session
Each session mixes a warm-up with several exercise types and adapts to you as you go. Fifteen to thirty minutes, a few times a week, is the sweet spot.
Watch your progress grow
Streaks, levels, and a per-sound mastery map show exactly which contrasts you've conquered and where to focus next.
Your brain is ready to learn. Give it something to practice.
Create a free account and finish your first training session today β no credit card, no trial clock, no catch.
Create your free accountCI-borg Training is a listening practice tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat any condition, and progress shown in the app reflects practice activity, not clinical measurements. For hearing assessment or changes to your device settings, talk to your audiologist. Terms of Use