Speech intelligibility enhancement using hearing-aid array processing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1827-1837

  Saunders, Gabrielle H ^a,b   Kates, James M ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Scientific Learning Corporation   (United States)

^c AudioLogic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0030750998     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420107     Document Type: Article

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