Methodological aspects of an adaptive multidirectional pattern search to optimize speech perception using three hearing-aid algorithms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3620-3628

  Franck, Bas A M ^a   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a   Lyzenga, Johannes ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEARING AIDS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

BACKGROUND NOISES; HEARING AID ALGORITHMS; MULTIDIRECTIONAL PATTERN SEARCH; SPEECH-IN NOISE FRAGMENTS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 11144256435     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1808220     Document Type: Article

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