Evaluation of signal enhancement algorithms for hearing instruments

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^h RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^j Hoerzentrum Oldenburg GmbH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; BELGIUM; EVALUATION MEASURES; GERMANY; HEARING INSTRUMENTS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HUMAN HEARING; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; REAL-TIME HARDWARE; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SWITZERLAND;

ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUDITION;

EID: 84863734945     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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