A twofold approach for the enhancement of speech intelligibility in hearing aids is presented. The improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio is fundamental to the success of acoustic hearing aids for the majority of hearing impaired people, suffering from a sensorineural hearing loss. Our approach reduces background noise in order to improve speech intelligibility. The suppression of noise is achieved by a combination of optimal beam-forming and computational auditory scene analysis. With respect to objective metrics of the assessment of speech intelligibility, the associated processing shows advantages compared to either of the underlying methods alone.

Authors: Boone, Marinus M.; Schlesinger, Anton
Affiliation: TU Delft
AES Convention: 124 (May 2008) Paper Number: 7386
Publication Date: May 1, 2008 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Analysis and Synthesis of Sound
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