Microphone-array hearing aids with binaural output - part i: fixed-processing systems

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 529-542

  Zurek, Patrick M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microphone array hearing aids; Noise reduction; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; HEARING AIDS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BINAURAL OUTPUT ARRAY SYSTEMS; MICROPHONE ARRAY HEARING AIDS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 0031277317     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.641298     Document Type: Article

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