Played at normal speed, the half speed recordings sound twice as fast.

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Patients who receive a cochlear implant need between 6 and 15 months to regain their hearing to the point where they say things sound normal.

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"The engines didn't sound typical, didn't sound normal, " he said.

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The implication of this is that you could scan a person using some advanced form of the technology used to perform MRI scans, and transmit that scanned information somewhere else -- using normal electrical or sound signals -- where it would then be reassembled into an approximation of the original.

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