Principles of Digital Dynamic-Range Compression

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 45-76

  Kates, James M ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BROADBAND COMPRESSION; DIGITAL COMPUTER; DIGITAL DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION; DIGITAL FILTERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN COMPRESSION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; MULTICHANNEL FILTER BANK; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; DEAFNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 22144483066     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108471380500900202     Document Type: Article

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