SmartHear: A Smartphone-Based Remote Microphone Hearing Assistive System Using Wireless Technologies

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 20-29

  Lin, Yu Cheng ^a   Lai, Ying Hui ^a   Chang, Hsiu Wen ^b   Tsao, Yu ^a   Chang, Yi Ping ^c   Chang, Ronald Y ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION   (Taiwan)

^b MACKAY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

^c Children's Hearing Foundation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

E health; frequency modulation (FM) systems; mobile applications; smartphones; wireless assistive hearing technology

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BLUETOOTH; EHEALTH; MOBILE COMPUTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SMARTPHONES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TELEPHONE SETS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMBIENT NOISE; ASSISTIVE; ASSISTIVE SYSTEM; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; USER EXPERIENCE; USER SURVEYS; VOICE SIGNALS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

EID: 85031717433     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2015.2490104     Document Type: Article

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