Speech recognition with a hearing-aid processing scheme combining beamforming with mask-informed speech enhancement

T Green, G Hilkhuysen, M Huckvale… - Trends in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
A signal processing approach combining beamforming with mask-informed speech
enhancement was assessed by measuring sentence recognition in listeners with mild-to …

Extending subcortical eeg responses to continuous speech to the sound-field

FL Bachmann, JP Kulasingham… - Trends in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a valuable clinical tool for objective hearing
assessment, which is conventionally detected by averaging neural responses to thousands …

[HTML][HTML] A spectro-temporal modulation test for predicting speech reception in hearing-impaired listeners with hearing aids

J Zaar, LB Simonsen, S Laugesen - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Spectro-temporal modulation (STM) detection sensitivity has been shown to be associated
with speech-in-noise reception in hearing-impaired (HI) individuals. Based on previous …

Improving EEG-based decoding of the locus of auditory attention through domain adaptation

J Wilroth, B Bernhardsson, F Heskebeck… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. This paper presents a novel domain adaptation (DA) framework to enhance the
accuracy of electroencephalography (EEG)-based auditory attention classification …

Restoring speech intelligibility for hearing aid users with deep learning

PU Diehl, Y Singer, H Zilly, U Schönfeld… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Almost half a billion people world-wide suffer from disabling hearing loss. While hearing
aids can partially compensate for this, a large proportion of users struggle to understand …

[HTML][HTML] The Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT) test: A clinical spectro-temporal modulation detection test

J Zaar, LB Simonsen, R Sanchez-Lopez, S Laugesen - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, multiple studies have shown that hearing-impaired listeners' speech-in-
noise reception ability, measured with audibility compensation, is closely associated with …

An objective evaluation of hearing aids and DNN-based binaural speech enhancement in complex acoustic scenes

E Gusó, J Luberadzka, M Baig… - 2023 IEEE Workshop …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the objective performance of five high-end commercially available Hearing
Aid (HA) devices compared to DNN-based speech enhancement algorithms in complex …

Context-Aware Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Based on Neuro-Fuzzy Modelling and User Preference Learning

S Chen, J Kirton-Wingate, F Doctor… - … on Fuzzy Systems, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is estimated that by 2050 approximately one in ten individuals globally will experience
disabling hearing impairment. In the presence of everyday reverberant noise, a substantial …

The perception of emotion in music by people with hearing loss and people with cochlear implants

BCJ Moore - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Music is an important part of life for many people. It can evoke a wide range of emotions,
including sadness, happiness, anger, tension, relief and excitement. People with hearing …

Masked spectrogram prediction for unsupervised domain adaptation in speech enhancement

K Zmolikova, MS Pedersen… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Supervised learning-based speech enhancement methods often work remarkably well in
acoustic situations represented in the training corpus but generalize poorly to out-of-domain …