Convolutional Recurrent Smart Speech Enhancement Architecture for Hearing Aids
Conference paper
Abdallah Abdelhafiz Nossier, S., Wall, J., Moniri, M., Glackin, C. and Cannings, N. 2022. Convolutional Recurrent Smart Speech Enhancement Architecture for Hearing Aids. INTERSPEECH 2022. Incheon, Korea 18 - 22 Sep 2022
Authors | Abdallah Abdelhafiz Nossier, S., Wall, J., Moniri, M., Glackin, C. and Cannings, N. |
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Type | Conference paper |
Abstract | Speech enhancement is the process of removing noise to improve speech quality and intelligibility for applications including hearing aids. Many deep neural networks for speech enhancement have shown great ability in eliminating noise, regardless of its type. In hearing aids, this process may result in removing important noise used in emergency situations, such as fire alarms and car horns. In order to prevent this, a smart speech enhancement architecture is presented in this paper, where a convolution-based noise classifier is used to detect emergency noise and activates the speech enhancement model to run in an audio enhancement mode, in which both the emergency noise and the speech are the target system output. The developed speech enhancement model is a deep convolutional recurrent network with several dilated layers to improve feature extraction without increasing network complexity. The results show that the speech enhancement model outperforms state of the art |
Keywords | Convolutional recurrent network; deep learning; hearing aids; noise classification; speech enhancement |
Year | 2022 |
Conference | INTERSPEECH 2022 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Repository staff only |
Publication dates | |
17 Nov 2022 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 14 Jun 2022 |
Deposited | 04 Jul 2022 |
Web address (URL) of conference proceedings | https://www.interspeech2022.org/program/ |
Copyright holder | © 2022, The Authors |
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