A digital filterbank hearing aid: Predicting user preference and performance for two signal processing algorithms

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-25

  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; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION; DIGITAL FILTERING; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031049957     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199702000-00002     Document Type: Article

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