An integrated approach for Noise Reduction and Dynamic Range Compression in hearing aids

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; RESIDUAL NOISE; SERIAL CONCATENATION; SNR IMPROVEMENT; TIME SEGMENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDITION; DEGRADATION; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84863732951     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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