A parametric spatial-audio processing technique is applied to bilaterally-fitted hearing aids. Two microphones in each device are used to estimate the direction of arrival and diffuseness of sound in each time-frequency position. This data is associated to the corresponding positions of a microphone signal from each device, and the signal is subsequently amplified or attenuated to filter sound depending on direction, or to suppress ambient sounds. Such processing is shown to produce a comparable advantage in speech reception threshold than with traditional techniques, but with a lower full-duplex transmission data rate between the devices having value of about 104 kbit/s.
Authors:
Ahonen, Jukka; Sivonen, Ville; Pulkki, Ville
Affiliations:
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; Cochlear Nordic AB, Helsinki, Finland; Akukon Ltd., Helsinki, Finland(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Conference:
45th International Conference: Applications of Time-Frequency Processing in Audio (March 2012)
Paper Number:
3-10
Publication Date:
March 1, 2012
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