Binaural Signal Processing in Hearing Aids: Technologies and Algorithms

Advances in Digital Speech Transmission

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 401-429

  Hamacher, Volkmar ^a   Kornagel, Ulrich ^a   Lotter, Thomas ^a   Puder, Henning ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaurally interacting hearing aids; Blind source separation algorithm; Channel noise reduction algorithms; Low data rate binaural link; Mobile communication systems; Pre amplification and bandpass filtering; Sensorineural hearing loss; Superdirective binaural input output beamformer; Superordinated classification based control system; Time invariant filter and sum operation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889485833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470727188.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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