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

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• dc.contributor.author Gusó; Enric
• dc.contributor.author Luberadzka, Joanna
• dc.contributor.author Baig, Martí
• dc.contributor.author Sayin, Umut
• dc.contributor.author Serra, Xavier
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-05-30T05:49:16Z
• dc.date.embargoEnd info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-12-31
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract We investigate the objective performance of five high-end commercially available Hearing Aid (HA) devices compared to DNN-based speech enhancement algorithms in complex acoustic environments. To this end, we measure the HRTFs of a single HA device to synthesize a binaural dataset for training two state-of-the-art causal and non-causal DNN enhancement models. We then generate an evaluation set of realistic speech-in-noise situations using an Ambisonics loudspeaker setup and record with a KU100 dummy head wearing each of the HA devices, both with and without the conventional HA algorithms, applying the DNN enhancers to the latter. We find that the DNN-based enhancement outperforms the HA algorithms in terms of noise suppression and objective intelligibility metrics.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research leading to these results has received funding from the European union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101017884 - GuestXR project.
• dc.embargo.liftdate 2025-12-31
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• dc.identifier.citation Gusó E, Luberadzka J, Baig M, Sayin Saraç U, Serra X. An objective evaluation of hearing aids and DNN-based speech enhancement in complex acoustic scenes. In: Kim M, Bryan N, Bello J, Elhilali M, Cartwright M, Bittner R, Pruthi T, Giacobello D, Fuentes M, Nam J, Brandstein M, Yoshii K, Virtanen T, editors. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2023); 2023 Oct 22-25; New York: IEEE; 2023. 5 p. DOI: 10.1109/WASPAA58266.2023.10248112
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70564
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• dc.relation.ispartof Kim M, Bryan N, Bello J, Elhilali M, Cartwright M, Bittner R, Pruthi T, Giacobello D, Fuentes M, Nam J, Brandstein M, Yoshii K, Virtanen T, editors. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2023); 2023 Oct 22-25; New York: IEEE; 2023.
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• dc.subject.keyword Hearing aids
• dc.subject.keyword Speech enhancement
• dc.subject.keyword Denoising
• dc.subject.keyword Dereverberation
• dc.title An objective evaluation of hearing aids and DNN-based speech enhancement in complex acoustic scenes
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