Combined feedback and noise suppression in hearing aids

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1777-1790

  Spriet, A ^a,b   Rombouts, G ^a   Moonen, M ^a   Wouters, J ^b  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Feedback cancellation; Generalized sidelobe canceller; Hearing aids; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FEEDBACKS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FEEDBACK CANCELLATION; FEEDBACK SUPPRESSIONS; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLER; HEARING AID; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; INTERFERENCE CANCELLERS; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE SUPPRESSIONS; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; PREDICTION ERROR METHODS; SPEECH DISTORTIONS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; POLARIZATION;

ANTENNA LOBES;

EID: 64549108396     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.896670     Document Type: Article

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