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Psychoacoustics, Speech and Hearing Aids cover

Recent advances in psychoacoustics and speech research have an important impact on our understanding of hearing impairment and the concepts of compensating hearing problems with modern hearing instruments. This proceedings of the summer school and symposium give an introduction into the latest developments in this interdisciplinary area. Tutorials of leading international scientists as well as more focused contributions of active researchers provide an excellent overview and a documentation of the “state of the art”. The book is of interest for everybody involved in hearing research, audiology, and audio signal processing.


Contents:
  • Psychoacoustics in Normal and Hearing-Impaired Listeners
  • Speech Perception
  • Dynamic Compression in Hearing Aids
  • Binaural Processing and Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids
  • New Developments in Hearing Aid Technology
  • Fitting and Evaluation of Hearing Aids

Readership: Audiologists, hearing scientists, biomedical engineers, medical physicists, electrical engineers and researchers in signal processing and speech.