Sound classification in hearing aids inspired by auditory scene analysis

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2991-3002

  Büchler, Michael ^a   Allegro, Silvia ^b   Launer, Stefan ^b   Dillier, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Phonak AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Hearing aids; Sound classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEARING AIDS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; HARMONICITY; SOUND CLASSIFICATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33751303502     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2991     Document Type: Article

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