Head-steered channel selection method for hearing aid applications using remote microphones
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| author | Sathyapriyan, Vasudha Pedersen, Michael S. Brookes, Mike Østergaard, Jan Naylor, Patrick A. Jensen, Jesper |
| author_facet | Sathyapriyan, Vasudha Pedersen, Michael S. Brookes, Mike Østergaard, Jan Naylor, Patrick A. Jensen, Jesper |
| contents | We propose a channel selection method for hearing aid applications using remote microphones, in the presence of multiple competing talkers. The proposed channel selection method uses the hearing aid user's head-steering direction to identify the remote channel originating from the frontal direction of the hearing aid user, which captures the target talker signal. We pose the channel selection task as a multiple hypothesis testing problem, and derive a maximum likelihood solution. Under realistic, simplifying assumptions, the solution selects the remote channel which has the highest weighted squared absolute correlation coefficient with the output of the head-steered hearing aid beamformer. We analyze the performance of the proposed channel selection method using close-talking remote microphones and table microphone arrays. Through simulations using realistic acoustic scenes, we show that the proposed channel selection method consistently outperforms existing methods in accurately finding the remote channel that captures the target talker signal, in the presence of multiple competing talkers, without the use of any additional sensors. |
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| spellingShingle | Head-steered channel selection method for hearing aid applications using remote microphones Sathyapriyan, Vasudha Pedersen, Michael S. Brookes, Mike Østergaard, Jan Naylor, Patrick A. Jensen, Jesper Audio and Speech Processing We propose a channel selection method for hearing aid applications using remote microphones, in the presence of multiple competing talkers. The proposed channel selection method uses the hearing aid user's head-steering direction to identify the remote channel originating from the frontal direction of the hearing aid user, which captures the target talker signal. We pose the channel selection task as a multiple hypothesis testing problem, and derive a maximum likelihood solution. Under realistic, simplifying assumptions, the solution selects the remote channel which has the highest weighted squared absolute correlation coefficient with the output of the head-steered hearing aid beamformer. We analyze the performance of the proposed channel selection method using close-talking remote microphones and table microphone arrays. Through simulations using realistic acoustic scenes, we show that the proposed channel selection method consistently outperforms existing methods in accurately finding the remote channel that captures the target talker signal, in the presence of multiple competing talkers, without the use of any additional sensors. |
| title | Head-steered channel selection method for hearing aid applications using remote microphones |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06928 |