Leveraging Multiple Speech Enhancers for Non-Intrusive Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Listeners
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| author | Cao, Boxuan Li, Linkai Yu, Hanlin Mo, Changgeng Zhou, Haoshuai Wang, Shan Xiang |
| author_facet | Cao, Boxuan Li, Linkai Yu, Hanlin Mo, Changgeng Zhou, Haoshuai Wang, Shan Xiang |
| contents | Speech intelligibility evaluation for hearing-impaired (HI) listeners is essential for assessing hearing aid performance, traditionally relying on listening tests or intrusive methods like HASPI. However, these methods require clean reference signals, which are often unavailable in real-world conditions, creating a gap between lab-based and real-world assessments. To address this, we propose a non-intrusive intelligibility prediction framework that leverages speech enhancers to provide a parallel enhanced-signal pathway, enabling robust predictions without reference signals. We evaluate three state-of-the-art enhancers and demonstrate that prediction performance depends on the choice of enhancer, with ensembles of strong enhancers yielding the best results. To improve cross-dataset generalization, we introduce a 2-clips augmentation strategy that enhances listener-specific variability, boosting robustness on unseen datasets. Our approach consistently outperforms the non-intrusive baseline, CPC2 Champion across multiple datasets, highlighting the potential of enhancer-guided non-intrusive intelligibility prediction for real-world applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Leveraging Multiple Speech Enhancers for Non-Intrusive Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Listeners Cao, Boxuan Li, Linkai Yu, Hanlin Mo, Changgeng Zhou, Haoshuai Wang, Shan Xiang Sound Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing Speech intelligibility evaluation for hearing-impaired (HI) listeners is essential for assessing hearing aid performance, traditionally relying on listening tests or intrusive methods like HASPI. However, these methods require clean reference signals, which are often unavailable in real-world conditions, creating a gap between lab-based and real-world assessments. To address this, we propose a non-intrusive intelligibility prediction framework that leverages speech enhancers to provide a parallel enhanced-signal pathway, enabling robust predictions without reference signals. We evaluate three state-of-the-art enhancers and demonstrate that prediction performance depends on the choice of enhancer, with ensembles of strong enhancers yielding the best results. To improve cross-dataset generalization, we introduce a 2-clips augmentation strategy that enhances listener-specific variability, boosting robustness on unseen datasets. Our approach consistently outperforms the non-intrusive baseline, CPC2 Champion across multiple datasets, highlighting the potential of enhancer-guided non-intrusive intelligibility prediction for real-world applications. |
| title | Leveraging Multiple Speech Enhancers for Non-Intrusive Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Listeners |
| topic | Sound Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16979 |