Using a signal cancellation technique involving impulse response to assess directivity of hearing aids

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3214-3226

  Wu, Yu Hsiang ^a   Bentler, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL HEARING AIDS; DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES; DIRECTIVITY; DIRECTIVITY PATTERN; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; HEARING AID; HIGH INTENSITY; IR METHODS; SIGNAL CANCELLATION; TEST ENVIRONMENT;

AUDITION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MICROPHONES;

HEARING AIDS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENERGY; HEARING AID; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH;

EID: 72549089078     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3238161     Document Type: Article

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