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IEEE workshop on apllications of signal processing to audio and acoustics, Date: 2005/10/16 - 2005/10/19, Location: New Paltz - New York - USA

Publication date: 2005-10-01
Pages: 57 - 60
ISSN: 0-7803-9154-3, 9780780391543
Publisher: IEEE

Proceedings WASPAA 2005

Author:

Van den Bogaert, Tim
Wouters, Jan ; Klasen, Thomas James ; Moonen, Marc

Keywords:

hearing aids, ITD, binaural, ILD, interaural, noise reduction, SISTA, Science & Technology, Technology, Acoustics, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, Engineering

Abstract:

This paper discusses the distortion of interaural time information by modern digital hearing aids. It is shown that two popular noise reduction techniques, namely a directional microphone and an adaptive directional microphone, are very sensitive to intermicrophone mismatch which results in the distortion of interaural time information. This interaural information is crucial for sound localization and speech perception in noise.