Microphone arrays for hearing aids: An overview

Speech Communication

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 139-146

  Widrow, Bernard ^a   Luo, Fa Long ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QuickSilver Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; FEEDBACK; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MICROPHONE ARRAYS;

HEARING AIDS;

EID: 0037210893     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00063-8     Document Type: Article

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