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Convention Paper

Dual Noise Suppression in Hearing Aids

Authors: Boone, Marinus M.; Schlesinger, Anton

AES Convention 124 · Paper 7386 · May 2008

Abstract

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.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 124
AES Convention
124
Paper number
7386
Publication date
May 6, 2008
Session subject
Analysis and Synthesis of Sound
Affiliation
TU Delft (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper