Speech enhancement with multichannel Wiener filter techniques in multimicrophone binaural hearing aids

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 360-371

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS; BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL HEARINGS; DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES; HEARING AID; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; MULTI CHANNELS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATIONS; SPATIAL AWARENESS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTIONS; WIENER FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 58849141364     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3023069     Document Type: Article

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