Effective compression and noise reduction configurations for hearing protectors

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1090-1101

  Chung, King ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WHITE NOISE;

HEARING PROTECTORS; NOISE COMPRESSION; SOUND QUALITY; SPEECH SPECTRUM;

HEARING AIDS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DYNAMICS; HEARING; HEARING AID; MODULATION; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WHITE NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846690729     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2409859     Document Type: Article

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