Smartphone-based real-time speech enhancement for improving hearing aids speech perception

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn 2016-October, Issue , 2016, Pages 5885-5888

  Rao, Yu ^a   Hao, Yiya ^a   Panahi, Issa M S ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; HEARING AID; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SMARTPHONE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; SMARTPHONE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 85009065151     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7592067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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