Modeling binaural unmasking of speech using a blind binaural processing stage

CF Hauth, SC Berning, B Kollmeier… - Trends in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The equalization cancellation model is often used to predict the binaural masking level
difference. Previously its application to speech in noise has required separate knowledge …

Modeling sluggishness in binaural unmasking of speech for maskers with time-varying interaural phase differences

CF Hauth, T Brand - Trends in hearing, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In studies investigating binaural processing in human listeners, relatively long and task-
dependent time constants of a binaural window ranging from 10 ms to 250 ms have been …

Nonintrusive speech intelligibility prediction using convolutional neural networks

AH Andersen, JM De Haan, ZH Tan… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech Intelligibility Prediction (SIP) algorithms are becoming popular tools within the
development and operation of speech processing devices and algorithms. However, many …

Binaural unmasking and spatial release from masking

JF Culling, M Lavandier - Binaural Hearing: With 93 Illustrations, 2021 - Springer
Spatial release from masking (SRM) occurs when a target signal and competing masker
come from different directions. For a stationary noise interferer, it comprises an improvement …

Monaural speech enhancement using deep neural networks by maximizing a short-time objective intelligibility measure

M Kolbæk, ZH Tan, J Jensen - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we propose a Deep Neural Network (D NN) based Speech Enhancement (SE)
system that is designed to maximize an approximation of the Short-Time Objective …

Refinement and validation of the binaural short time objective intelligibility measure for spatially diverse conditions

AH Andersen, JM de Haan, ZH Tan, J Jensen - Speech Communication, 2018 - Elsevier
Speech intelligibility prediction methods have recently gained popularity in the speech
processing community as supplements to time consuming and costly listening experiments …

[HTML][HTML] Non-intrusive speech intelligibility prediction using an auditory periphery model with hearing loss

CO Mawalim, BA Titalim, S Okada, M Unoki - Applied Acoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
Speech intelligibility prediction methods are necessary for hearing aid development.
However, many such prediction methods are categorized as intrusive metrics because they …

A non-intrusive short-time objective intelligibility measure

AH Andersen, JM de Haan, ZH Tan… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a non-intrusive intelligibility measure for noisy and non-linearly processed
speech, ie a measure which can predict intelligibility from a degraded speech signal without …

[HTML][HTML] Personalized signal-independent beamforming for binaural hearing aids

AH Moore, JM de Haan, MS Pedersen… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of personalized microphone array calibration on the performance of hearing aid
beamformers under noisy reverberant conditions is studied. The study makes use of a new …

A neural network for monaural intrusive speech intelligibility prediction

MB Pedersen, AH Andersen… - ICASSP 2020-2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monaural intrusive speech intelligibility prediction (SIP) methods aim to predict the speech
intelligibility (SI) of a single-microphone noisy and/or processed speech signal using the …