A smartphone-based digital hearing aid to mitigate hearing loss at specific frequencies

MMA 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Mobile Medical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-5

  Wang, Wei ^a   Chen, Zhilu ^a   Xing, Baoyuan ^a   Huang, Xiaochen ^b   Han, S ^b   Agu, Emmanuel ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital hearing aids; Smartphone; Sound classification

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HEARING AIDS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MHEALTH; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CHRONIC CONDITIONS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DIGITAL HEARING AIDS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MACHINE LEARNING MODELS; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SOUND CLASSIFICATION; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES;

AUDITION;

EID: 84915791330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2676431.2676435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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