Improved speech understanding in cocktail party scenarios through neuro-steered hearing prostheses KU Leuven
Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics (STADIUS), Research Group Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology
People with hearing impairment often have difficulties to understand speech in noisy environments, which is why hearing aids and cochlear implants are usually equipped with speech enhancement algorithms to suppress background noise. However, in so-called ‘cocktail party’ scenarios where multiple speakers talk simultaneously, a fundamental problem appears: how can the algorithm decide which speaker the listener aims to attend to, and which ...