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ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2021

Smartphone-based single-channel speech enhancement application for hearing aids.

Nikhil Shankar, Gautam Shreedhar Bhat, Issa M S Panahi, Stephanie Tittle, Linda M Thibodeau

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Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nikhil ShankarDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
Gautam Shreedhar BhatDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
Issa M S PanahiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
Stephanie TittleDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
Linda M ThibodeauDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
The University of Texas at Dallas · US

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
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work presents a single-channel speech enhancement (SE) framework based on the super-Gaussian extension of the joint maximum a posteriori (SGJMAP) estimation rule. The developed SE algorithm is an open-source research smartphone-based application for hearing improvement studies. In this algorithm, the SGJMAP-based estimation for noisy speech mixture is smoothed along the frequency axis by a Mel filter-bank, resulting in a Mel-warped frequency-domain SGJMAP estimation. The impulse response of this Mel-warped estimation is obtained by applying a Mel-warped inverse discrete cosine transform (Mel-IDCT). This helps in filtering out the background noise and enhancing the speech signal. The proposed application is implemented on an iPhone (Apple, Cupertino, CA) to operate in real time and tested with normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) listeners with different types of hearing aids through wireless connectivity. The objective speech quality and intelligibility test results are used to compare the performance of the proposed algorithm to existing conventional single-channel SE methods. Additionally, test results from NH and HI listeners show substantial improvement in speech recognition with the developed method in simulated real-world noisy conditions at different signal-to-noise ratio levels.

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Hearing AidsHearing Loss, SensorineuralSpeech PerceptionHumansNoiseSmartphoneSpeech Intelligibility

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PMID34598612
PMCPMC8434896
OpenAlexW3198263700

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