Effect of spectral change enhancement for the hearing impaired using parameter values selected with a genetic algorithm

被引:11
作者
Chen, Jing [1 ,2 ]
Baer, Thomas [3 ]
Moore, Brian C. J. [3 ]
机构
[1] Peking Univ, Dept Machine Intelligence, Speech & Hearing Res Ctr, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[2] Peking Univ, Key Lab Machine Percept, Minist Educ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Cambridge, Dept Expt Psychol, Cambridge CB2 3EB, England
关键词
DYNAMIC-RANGE COMPRESSION; AUDITORY FILTER SHAPES; SPEECH-INTELLIGIBILITY; PERCEPTUAL COMPENSATION; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVITY; PSYCHOPHYSICAL DATA; LOUDNESS MODEL; NOISE; RECEPTION; AIDS;
D O I
10.1121/1.4799807
中图分类号
O42 [声学];
学科分类号
070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
Chen et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 2987-2998 (2012)] evaluated the effectiveness of an algorithm for enhancing spectral changes over time in improving the intelligibility of speech in background sounds for hearing-impaired subjects. The processing improved intelligibility for speech in steady speech-spectrum noise (SSN) but tended to impair intelligibility in a background of two-talker speech (TTS). Large individual differences were found. The present study assessed whether the effectiveness of the algorithm was improved when the parameters that controlled the degree and type of enhancement were chosen individually for each subject, using a genetic algorithm based on subjective preferences for speech clarity. The parameter values selected by the genetic algorithm varied markedly across subjects. Speech intelligibility was measured for unprocessed stimuli and stimuli processed using the selected parameters, with SSN and TTS maskers and two signal-to-masker ratios (SMRs) for each subject. The intelligibility of speech in the SSN masker at the lower SMR was improved about 14 percentage points by the processing. The overall improvement produced by the processing was significantly larger than the improvement observed in the previous study when the parameter values were fixed across subjects, indicating that use of the genetic algorithm was beneficial. (C) 2013 Acoustical Society of America.
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页码:2910 / 2920
页数:11
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