Increase and Subjective Evaluation of Feedback Stability in Hearing Aids by a Binaural Coherence-Based Noise Reduction Scheme

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1408-1419

  Grimm, Giso ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing aid; coherence filter; feedback reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008028555     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2020531     Document Type: Article

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