Hands-free telecommunication for elderly persons suffering from hearing deficiencies

12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services, Healthcom 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 209-214

  Goetze, Stefan ^a   Xiong, Feifei ^a   Rennies, Jan ^a   Rohdenburg, Thomas ^a   Appell, Jens E ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING AIDS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ELDERLY PERSONS; HANDS-FREE TELECOMMUNICATION; HEARING-IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; NATURAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEMS;

AUDITION;

EID: 77957870046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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