Adaptive noise suppression for a dual-microphone hearing aid

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 401-407

  Wouters, Jan ^a   Vanden Berghe, Jeff ^a   Maj, Jean Baptiste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptive noise reduction; Speech intelligibility in noise; Two microphone hearing aid

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0036780164     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992020209090417     Document Type: Article

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