Clinical trial of a digital hearing aid

Scandinavian Audiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-61

  Arlinger, Stig ^a   Billermark, Erica ^a   Öberg, Marie ^a   Lunner, Thomas ^a   Hellgren, Johan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Digital signal processing; Hearing aid; Hearing aid benefit; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031931465     PISSN: 01050397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/010503998419704     Document Type: Article

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