A Binaural Steering Beamformer System for Enhancing a Moving Speech Source

Trends in Hearing

Volumn 19, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Adiloğlu, Kamil ^a,b   Kayser, Hendrik ^b,c   Baumgärtel, Regina M ^b,c   Rennebeck, Sanja ^b,c,d   Dietz, Mathias ^b,c   Hohmann, Volker ^a,b,c  

^a Center of Competence HörTech GGmbH   (Germany)

^b Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d JADE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

audio signal localization; objective evaluation; perceptual evaluation; signal enhancement; speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84994225880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23312165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2331216515618903     Document Type: Article

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