I know some people get the CI, not to get access to speech understanding but enjoy music and other environmental sound.
I have very good speech understanding on both ears but it isn’t a speech only processor, it is a sound processor where sound can be any sound, not just speech.
It open a new world of sound, a whole new depth of dynamic range I didn’t have. I have 80 db from the softest sound to loudest sound. (20 db to 100 db) with CI.