Hearcom: Hearing in the communication society

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-192

  Vlaming, Marcel S M G ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^b,c   Dreschler, Wouter A ^d   Martin, Rainer ^e   Wouters, Jan ^f   Grover, Brian ^g   Mohammadh, Yehya ^h   Mohammadh, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c HörTech GmbH   (Germany)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g Royal National Institute of Blind People   (United Kingdom)

^h FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DEVICE; COMPARISON STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; HAND HELD DEVICE; HANDHELDS; HEARING DEVICES; HEARING SCREENING; HEARING-IMPAIRED PERSONS; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; PROCESSING POWER; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; STEP-BY-STEP; TELECOM SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION;

AUDITION;

EID: 79952171609     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918397     Document Type: Review

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