Incorporating the conditional speech presence probability in multi-channel wiener filter based noise reduction in hearing aids

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ngo, Kim ^a   Spriet, Ann ^a,b   Moonen, Marc ^a   Wouters, Jan ^b   Jensen, Søren Holdt ^c  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXED PARAMETERS; HEARING AID; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; NOISE REDUCTIONS; SPEECH DISTORTION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 69349087955     PISSN: 16876172     EISSN: 16876180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/930625     Document Type: Article

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