Signal processing strategies and clinical outcomes for gain and waveform compression in hearing aids

Conference Record of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 391-398

  Goldstein, J L ^a   Oz, M ^a   Gilchrist, P ^a   Valente, M ^b  

^a BECS Technology Inc

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE COMPRESSION THRESHOLD (ACT); BANDPASS NONLINEARITY (BPNL); SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL (SPL); WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE GAIN COMPRESSION (WDRC);

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; ERROR CORRECTION; HEARING AIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 4143077962     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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