Effects of instantaneous multiband dynamic compression on speech intelligibility

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 3034-3043

  Herzke, Tobias ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic gain control; Fast acting dynamic compression; Hearing aids; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AUDIO SYSTEMS; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL; FAST-ACTING DYNAMIC COMPRESSION; FREQUENCY RESOLUTION; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33751303500     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.3034     Document Type: Article

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