Speech Processing for Hearing Aids: Noise Reduction Motivated by Models of Binaural Interaction

Acustica

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 684-699

  Wittkop, Thomas ^a   Albani, Stephan ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a   Peissig, Jürgen ^a   Woods, William S ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BINAURAL INTERACTION; COCKTAIL PARTY PROCESSING; NOISE REDUCTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0031192298     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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