Negative impacts from latency masked by noise in simulated beamforming.

ABSTRACT: Those experiencing hearing loss face severe challenges in perceiving speech in noisy situations such as a busy restaurant or cafe. There are many factors contributing to this deficit including decreased audibility, reduced frequency resolution, and decline in temporal synchrony across the auditory system. Some hearing assistive devices implement beamforming in which multiple microphones are used in combination to attenuate surrounding noise while the target speaker is left unattenuated. In increasingly challenging auditory environments, more complex beamforming algorithms are required, which increases the processing time needed to provide a useful signal-to-noise ratio of the target speech. This study investigated whether the benefits from signal enhancement from beamforming are outweighed

SUBMITTER: Drew JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8248715 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature