Improved noise power spectrum density estimation for binaural hearing aids operating in a diffuse noise field environment

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 521-533

  Kamkar Parsi, A Homayoun ^a   Bouchard, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing aids; Diffuse noise field; Noise power spectrum estimation

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL HEARING AIDS; COLORED NOISE; CURRENT GENERATIONS; CURRENT NOISE; DE-NOISING; DIFFUSE NOISE FIELD; DIGITAL HEARING AIDS; HEARING AID; NOISE ESTIMATIONS; NOISE ESTIMATORS; NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM ESTIMATION; NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NOISE TRACKING; REFERENCE SIGNALS; SPEECH ACTIVITIES; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATIONARY NOISE; TARGET SPEAKERS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTIONS; WIRELESS LINKS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDITION; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HEARING AIDS;

EID: 65249143457     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2009017     Document Type: Article

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