Improved speech intelligibility with cochlear implants using state-of-the-art noise reduction algorithms

Proceedings of 10th ITG Symposium on Speech Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hehrmann, Phillipp ^a   Fredelake, Stefan ^a   Hamacher, Volkmar ^a   Dyballa, Karl Heinz ^b   Büchner, Andreas ^b  

^a Advanced Bionics GmbH   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; BINS; BIOMIMETICS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER; BEAM FORMERS; DIFFUSE NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SPEECH PROCESSORS; STATE OF THE ART;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84947997644     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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