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ArticleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference2020

Real-time dual-channel speech enhancement by VAD assisted MVDR beamformer for hearing aid applications using smartphone.

Nikhil Shankar, Gautam Shreedhar Bhat, Issa M S Panahi

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Article in Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Nikhil Shankar
Gautam Shreedhar Bhat
Issa M S Panahi

Funding

Smartphone-Based Open Research Platform for Hearing Improvement StudiesR01DC015430 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI PANAHI, ISSA · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015430
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Abstract

In this paper, a dual-channel speech enhancement (SE) method is proposed. The proposed method is a combination of minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer and a super-Gaussian joint maximum a posteriori (SGJMAP) based SE gain function. The proposed SE method runs on a smartphone in real-time, providing a portable device for hearing aid (HA) applications. Spectral Flux based voice activity detector (VAD) is used to improve the accuracy of the beamformer output. The efficiency of the proposed SE method is evaluated using speech quality and intelligibility measures and compared with that of other SE techniques. The objective and subjective test results show the capability of the proposed SE method in three different noisy conditions at low signal to noise ratios (SNRs) of -5, 0, and +5 dB.

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Hearing AidsSmartphoneVoiceHumansNoiseSpeech Intelligibility

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PMID33018142
PMCPMC7545265

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