Benefits of Acoustic Beamforming for Solving the Cocktail Party Problem

The benefit provided to listeners with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) by an acoustic beamforming microphone array was determined in a speech-on-speech masking experiment. Normal-hearing controls were tested as well. For the SNHL listeners, prescription-determined gain was applied to the stimuli,...

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Main Authors: Gerald Kidd, Christine R. Mason, Virginia Best, Jayaganesh Swaminathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-06-01
Series:Trends in Hearing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216515593385