The effect of multimicrophone noise reduction systems on sound source localization by users of binaural hearing aids

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 484-497

  Van Den Bogaert, Tim ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a,b   Wouters, Jan ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; AUDITION; ECHO SUPPRESSION; HEARING AIDS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RADIOMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; WAVE FILTERS;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); BINAURAL HEARING; COMMERCIAL HEARING AIDS; MASKING EFFECTS; MULTI MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; NOISE COMPONENTS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE REDUCTION PERFORMANCE; NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; NOISE REDUCTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR); SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION (SSL); SOUND SOURCES; TARGET SPEECH; WIENER FILTERING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; FILTER; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROPHONE; NOISE REDUCTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AMPLIFIERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PHYSICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 47649109456     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2931962     Document Type: Article

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