Using digital hearing aids to visualize real-life effects of signal processing

Hearing Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 40-49

  Kuk, Francis ^a   Damsgaard, Anne ^b   Bulow, Maja ^b   Ludvigsen, Carl ^b  

^a Widex   (United States)

^b Widex A/S   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MICROPHONE; NOISE REDUCTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 2342643373     PISSN: 07457472     EISSN: 15425991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HJ.0000292418.60492.1f     Document Type: Article

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