Advanced hearing prosthesis recipient habilitation and/or rehabilitation

1. A method of improving a recipient of a hearing prosthesis' ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis, comprising:

obtaining data indicative of a first characteristic of content, wherein the content is an audio or an audio-visual content;

obtaining data indicative of a second characteristic of the content;

identifying, based on the first and second characteristics, specific content; and

using at least one item of the specific content with the hearing prosthesis such that a hearing percept in the recipient is evoked based on the at least one item of specific content.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the first characteristic is a sound related characteristic.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the second characteristic is content topic characteristic.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the second characteristic is a substantive content characteristic.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the first characteristic is one of a linguistic complexity, a language characteristic, a word rate, a gender of speaker, an accent of speaker or a background sound characteristic.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

correlating the first characteristic to a statistically based qualifier, wherein the qualifier is based on statistical data indicating that people with a hearing prosthesis will be able to comprehend speech in the specific content.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

correlating the first characteristic to a statistically based qualifier, wherein the qualifier is based on statistical data indicating that people with a hearing prosthesis and demographic characteristics of the recipient will be able to comprehend speech in the specific content.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

directly providing, to the recipient, the at least one item of the specific content.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the first characteristic is an ease of listening characteristic.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

automatically directly providing, to the recipient, the at least one item of the specific content.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining data indicative of undesired content, wherein

at least one of:

the action of identifying specific content excludes one or more items of specific content; or

the method further includes indicating one or more items of specific content as having the undesired content, as having the undesired content.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the hearing prosthesis is a cochlear implant with at least a portion thereof implanted in the recipient.

13. A method of improving a recipient of a hearing prosthesis' ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis, comprising:

inputting, into a user interface, data indicative of a first characteristic of content, wherein the content is an audio or an audio-visual content;

inputting, into a user interface, data indicative of a second characteristic of the content;

automatically identifying, based on the first and second characteristics, specific content; and

using at least one item of the specific content with the hearing prosthesis such that a hearing percept in the recipient is evoked based on the at least one item of specific content.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the first characteristic is an ease of listening characteristic.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the identified specific content has a hierarchy based on some data feature(s); and

the at least one item of the specific content is chosen based on the hierarchy.

16. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

choosing the at least one item of the specific content based on a hierarchy in which the at least one item falls within the identified specific content.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the first characteristic is at least three of a linguistic complexity, a language characteristic, a word rate, a gender of speaker, an accent of speaker or a background sound characteristic.

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the method is part of a training effort to train the recipient to hear better with the hearing prosthesis.

19. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the hearing prosthesis is a cochlear implant with at least a portion thereof implanted in the recipient.

20. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

there is no service provider directly providing the at least one item of the specific content.