Using hearing aid adaptive directional microphones to enhance cochlear implant performance

Hearing Research

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 27-37

  Chung, King ^a   Zeng, Fan Gang ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Cochlear implant; Directional microphone; Hearing aid; Sound quality; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 62949087861     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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