Functionality of hearing aids: State-of-the-art and future model-based solutions

B Kollmeier, J Kiessling - International journal of audiology, 2018‏ - Taylor & Francis
A review about technical and perceptual factors in hearing aid technology, research and
development is provided, covering current commercial solutions, underlying models of …

Multichannel signal enhancement algorithms for assisted listening devices: Exploiting spatial diversity using multiple microphones

S Doclo, W Kellermann, S Makino… - IEEE Signal …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In everyday environments, we are frequently immersed by unwanted acoustic noise and
interference while we want to listen to acoustic signals, most often speech. Technology for …

On optimal frequency-domain multichannel linear filtering for noise reduction

M Souden, J Benesty, S Affes - IEEE Transactions on audio …, 2009‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several contributions have been made so far to develop optimal multichannel linear filtering
approaches and show their ability to reduce the acoustic noise. However, there has not …

[كتاب][B] Distant speech recognition

M Wölfel, J McDonough - 2009‏ - books.google.com
A complete overview of distant automatic speech recognition The performance of
conventional Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems degrades dramatically as soon …

Acoustic beamforming for hearing aid applications

S Doclo, S Gannot, M Moonen… - Handbook on array …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Noise reduction algorithms in hearing aids are crucial for hearing-impaired persons to
improve speech intelligibility in background noise (eg, traffic, cocktail party situation). Many …

Low-rank approximation based multichannel Wiener filter algorithms for noise reduction with application in cochlear implants

R Serizel, M Moonen, B Van Dijk… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents low-rank approximation based multichannel Wiener filter algorithms for
noise reduction in speech plus noise scenarios, with application in cochlear implants. In a …

Multicenter evaluation of signal enhancement algorithms for hearing aids

H Luts, K Eneman, J Wouters, M Schulte… - The Journal of the …, 2010‏ - pubs.aip.org
In the framework of the European HearCom project, promising signal enhancement
algorithms were developed and evaluated for future use in hearing instruments. To assess …

Speech enhancement with multichannel Wiener filter techniques in multimicrophone binaural hearing aids

T Van den Bogaert, S Doclo, J Wouters… - The Journal of the …, 2009‏ - pubs.aip.org
This paper evaluates speech enhancement in binaural multimicrophone hearing aids by
noise reduction algorithms based on the multichannel Wiener filter (MWF) and the MWF with …

Multi-channel speech signal enhancement for robust voice trigger detection and automatic speech recognition

J Wung, JD Atkins, R Pishehvar, M Souden - US Patent 10,403,299, 2019‏ - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A digital speech enhancement system that performs a spe cific chain of
digital signal processing operations upon multi-channel sound pick up, to result in a single …

Theoretical analysis of binaural multimicrophone noise reduction techniques

B Cornelis, S Doclo, T Van dan Bogaert… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2009‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Binaural hearing aids use microphone signals from both left and right hearing aid to
generate an output signal for each ear. The microphone signals can be processed by a …