Beamformer performance limits in monaural and binaural hearing aid applications

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 381-386

  Gordy, James D ^a   Bouchard, Martin ^a   Aboulnasr, Tyseer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Directional microphones; Hearing aids; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; BEAM FORMING ALGORITHMS; BINAURAL HEARING; DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES; DIRECTIVITY; DIRECTIVITY INDEX; DIRECTIVITY PATTERNS; ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; NOISE GAIN; NOISE REDUCTION; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; RIGHT AND LEFT; SIMULATION RESULTS; SOURCE SIGNALS;

AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; TECHNOLOGY;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 51849119734     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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