Digital Noise Reduction: An Overview

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 67-82

  Bentler, Ruth ^a   Chiou, Li Kuei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithms; amplification; digital noise reduction; onset time

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; NOISE REDUCTION; REVIEW; SPEECH;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NOISE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH;

EID: 33747466087     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713806289514     Document Type: Article

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