Speech perception in noise with a two-sensor frequency-domain minimum-variance (FMV) beamforming algorithm

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 100-105

  Larsen, Jeffery B ^a   Lansing, Charissa R ^a   Bilger, Robert C ^b   Wheeler, Bruce C ^a   Phatak, Sandeep A ^a   Lockwood, Michael E ^a   O'Brien Jr , William ^a   Feng, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; LISTENING; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT);

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 2942715061     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1740797     Document Type: Article

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