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Two acoustical inverse problems in speech and hearing

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Mohan Sondhi, M. (1980). Two acoustical inverse problems in speech and hearing. In: DeSanto, J.A., Sáenz, A.W., Zachary, W.W. (eds) Mathematical Methods and Applications of Scattering Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-10023-7_127

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