Multicenter evaluation of signal enhancement algorithms for hearing aids

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1491-1505

  Luts, Heleen ^a   Eneman, Koen ^a,k   Wouters, Jan ^a   Schulte, Michael ^b   Vormann, Matthias ^b   Buechler, Michael ^c   Dillier, Norbert ^c   Houben, Rolph ^d   Dreschler, Wouter A ^d   Froehlich, Matthias ^e   Puder, Henning ^e   Grimm, Giso ^f   Hohmann, Volker ^f   Leijon, Arne ^g   Lombard, Anthony ^h   Mauler, Dirk ⁱ   Spriet, Ann ^j  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Hoerzentrum Oldenburg GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^g ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

ⁱ RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^k Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; DIFFUSE NOISE; GERMANY; HARDWARE/SOFTWARE; HEARING INSTRUMENTS; LISTENING TESTS; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; MULTI-TALKER BABBLE; NETHERLANDS; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SWITZERLAND; TEST SITE; TESTED SIGNALS;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TESTING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOISE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; DEAFNESS; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950438864     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3299168     Document Type: Article

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