A digital processing strategy to optimize hearing aid outputs directly

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 716-728

  Blamey, Peter J ^a,b,d   Martin, Lois F A ^a,c   Fiket, Hayley J ^a,c  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amplification; Compression; Digital signal processing; Hearing aids; Multichannel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PROSTHESIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15544386623     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.15.10.6     Document Type: Article

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