The acoustic and perceptual effects of two noise-suppression algorithms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 433-441

  Zakis, Justin A ^a   Wise, Christi ^a  

^a Dynamic Hearing Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HEARING-AID CIRCUITS; INTERNAL NOISE; NORMAL-HEARING; SPEECH SPECTRUM;

ALGORITHMS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPECTRUM; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DEAFNESS; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846240912     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2401656     Document Type: Article

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