Target talker enhancement in hearing devices

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4201-4204

  Schimmel, Steven M ^a,b,c   Atlas, Les E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic resonator filters; Carrier estimation; Hearing aids; Modulation filtering; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC RESONATOR FILTERS; CARRIER ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; MODULATION FILTERING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

MODULATION;

EID: 51449087404     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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