Signal processing in high-end hearing aids: State of the art, challenges, and future trends

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2915-2929

  Harnacher, V ^a   Chalupper, J ^a   Eggers, J ^a   Fischer, E ^a   Kornagel, U ^a   Puder, H ^a   Rass, U ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic feedback; Classification; Compression; Digital hearing aid; Directional microphone; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GAIN CONTROL; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK; COMPRESSION; DIGITAL HEARING AID; DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33751305390     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2915     Document Type: Article

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