Modeling intelligibility of hearing-aid compression circuits

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 720-724

  Bondy, Jeff ^a   Bruce, Ian C ^a   Dong, Rong ^a   Becker, Suzanna ^a   Haykin, Simon ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive signal processing; Clustering; Compression; Intelligibility metrics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLUSTERING; COMPRESSION; COMPRESSION CIRCUITS; INTELLIGEBILITY METRICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 4143149413     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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