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Research Article

Speech understanding in noise with an eyeglass hearing aid: Asymmetric fitting and the head shadow benefit of anterior microphones

Pages 27-33 | Received 15 Feb 2010, Accepted 30 Aug 2010, Published online: 04 Nov 2010

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