Multi-Microphone Noise Data Augmentation for DNN-based Own Voice Reconstruction for Hearables in Noisy Environments

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Auteurs principaux: Ohlenbusch, Mattes, Rollwage, Christian, Doclo, Simon
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author Ohlenbusch, Mattes
Rollwage, Christian
Doclo, Simon
author_facet Ohlenbusch, Mattes
Rollwage, Christian
Doclo, Simon
contents Hearables with integrated microphones may offer communication benefits in noisy working environments, e.g. by transmitting the recorded own voice of the user. Systems aiming at reconstructing the clean and full-bandwidth own voice from noisy microphone recordings are often based on supervised learning. Recording a sufficient amount of noise required for training such a system is costly since noise transmission between outer and inner microphones varies individually. Previously proposed methods either do not consider noise, only consider noise at outer microphones or assume inner and outer microphone noise to be independent during training, and it is not yet clear whether individualized noise can benefit the training of and own voice reconstruction system. In this paper, we investigate several noise data augmentation techniques based on measured transfer functions to simulate multi-microphone noise. Using augmented noise, we train a multi-channel own voice reconstruction system. Experiments using real noise are carried out to investigate the generalization capability. Results show that incorporating augmented noise yields large benefits, in particular considering individualized noise augmentation leads to higher performance.
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spellingShingle Multi-Microphone Noise Data Augmentation for DNN-based Own Voice Reconstruction for Hearables in Noisy Environments
Ohlenbusch, Mattes
Rollwage, Christian
Doclo, Simon
Audio and Speech Processing
Hearables with integrated microphones may offer communication benefits in noisy working environments, e.g. by transmitting the recorded own voice of the user. Systems aiming at reconstructing the clean and full-bandwidth own voice from noisy microphone recordings are often based on supervised learning. Recording a sufficient amount of noise required for training such a system is costly since noise transmission between outer and inner microphones varies individually. Previously proposed methods either do not consider noise, only consider noise at outer microphones or assume inner and outer microphone noise to be independent during training, and it is not yet clear whether individualized noise can benefit the training of and own voice reconstruction system. In this paper, we investigate several noise data augmentation techniques based on measured transfer functions to simulate multi-microphone noise. Using augmented noise, we train a multi-channel own voice reconstruction system. Experiments using real noise are carried out to investigate the generalization capability. Results show that incorporating augmented noise yields large benefits, in particular considering individualized noise augmentation leads to higher performance.
title Multi-Microphone Noise Data Augmentation for DNN-based Own Voice Reconstruction for Hearables in Noisy Environments
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08908