I want to sound clear. And one lucky reporter. The room falls silent except for the sound emanating from the computer monitor. Clinical audiologist Philip Ives asks Butler how the volume sounds. She never complains that the sounds are too loud.
Ives stops the test to recalibrate the device.
The next time he turns it on, he says, Butler will be able to hear speech. She waits expectantly, and so Ives turns on the device and speaks to her. All she hears are loud, high-pitched beeps. She's not waiting for quite the radical transformation that I am, but frustrated tears suggest she had expected more. The mood in the room has changed from joyous expectancy to somber realism.