Using a signal cancellation technique to assess adaptive directivity of hearing aids

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 496-511

  Wu, Yu Hsiang ^a   Bentler, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOUDSPEAKERS; MICROPHONES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RELIABILITY THEORY; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

PHASE-INVERTED JAMMERS; POLAR PATTERN; SIGNAL CANCELLATION;

HEARING AIDS;

ARTICLE; HEARING AID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS; ALGORITHM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PERCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547410037     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2735804     Document Type: Article

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