Subjective and objective evaluation of noise management algorithms

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-98

  Peeters, Heidi ^a,b   Kuk, Francis ^a   Lau, Chi Chuen ^a   Keenan, Denise ^a  

^a Widex Hearing Aid Company   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptable noise level; Directional microphone; Hearing aids; Noise reduction; Speech intelligibility index

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE NOISE LEVEL TASK; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IN NOISE TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOUDNESS; MALE; MICROPHONE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 69249148669     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.20.2.2     Document Type: Article

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