A digital filterbank hearing aid: Three digital signal processing algorithmsuser preference and performance

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 373-387

  Lunner, Thomas ^b   Hellgren, Johan ^c   Arlinger, Stig ^c   Elberling, Claus ^a  

^a OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030671021     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199710000-00003     Document Type: Article

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