I hear you.
The Envoy has an implantable microphone in the eardrum. The eardrum filters the background noises better than an external microphone. This means that the Envoy patients can hear better than hearing aid wearers. If the cochlear implant was Totally Implantable and had a microphone in the eardrum (like the Envoy), CI patients would hear very good in a noisy room.
CI companies do not offer this option. Instead, they throw deaf kids into the cruel world of mainstream school/audism.
For the record, the speech therapists were very austere at me 
until I pronounced things correctly.
CI companies throw deaf kids into the mainstream school without In-the Eardrum microphone cochlear implant (very good hearing) or ASL. It's a fact that speech therapists discourage ASL. The cruelty!
