An adaptive noise canceller for hearing aids using two nearby microphones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3621-3626

  Vanden Berghe, Jeff ^a   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MICROPHONE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AMPLIFIERS; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0031779921     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423066     Document Type: Article

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