Multi-microphone noise cancellation for improvement of hearing aid performance

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue , 1998, Pages 3633-3636

  Shields, P W ^a   Campbell, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACOUSTIC SPEECH; HEARING IMPAIRED; INTELLIGIBILITY TESTS; LEAST MEAN SQUARES ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE INPUTS; NOISE CANCELLATION; SIGNAL CHARACTERISTIC;

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL DENOISING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0031636949     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.679669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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