Physiological assessment of contrast-enhancing frequency shaping and multiband compression in hearing aids

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 945-956

  Bruce, Ian C ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve model; Formant representation; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Multiband compression; Spectral enhancement

Indexed keywords

HEARING AIDS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SPEECH;

AUDITORY NERVE MODEL; AUDITORY NERVES; FORMANT REPRESENTATION; FREQUENCY SHAPING; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-AIDS; MULTI BAND; MULTIBAND COMPRESSION; NERVE MODELS; SPECTRAL ENHANCEMENT;

AUDITION;

ALGORITHM; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPRESSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FILTER; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; SPEECH;

EID: 4344609571     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/25/4/013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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