Speech Recognition and Synthesis Algorithm for Digital Hearing Aids under Background Noise

The difficulty of speech comprehension under background noise greatly influenced the use of hearing aids. To address this problem, this paper proposes a new hearing aids algorithm based on speech recognition and synthesis. This method is based on the pure speech to build a parameters database. Under the real noisy scene, implement speech recognition for the input speech, and then extract the corresponding parameters according to the results of the recognition and synthesize the pure speech. To improve the noise robustness of speech recognition system, we use a newly proposed kernel power flow orientation coefficients (KPOCs) as the characteristic parameters for training and testing. Because the speech synthesis is based on the parameters of pure speech, the output speech almost does not contain noise, and the difficulty of speech comprehension has great improvement.

[1]  Zoran A. Ivanovski,et al.  Kernel Power Flow Orientation Coefficients for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition , 2015, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

[2]  J. Picone,et al.  Continuous speech recognition using hidden Markov models , 1990, IEEE ASSP Magazine.

[3]  Harvey Dillon,et al.  Problems Hearing in Noise in Older Adults , 2011, Trends in amplification.

[4]  Robert D. Rodman,et al.  Voice Recognition , 2011, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security.

[5]  T Ricketts,et al.  Impact of Noise Source Configuration on Directional Hearing Aid Benefit and Performance , 2000, Ear and hearing.

[6]  Theresa C McLoud,et al.  Voice Recognition , 2009, Encyclopedia of Biometrics.

[7]  Todd A Ricketts,et al.  Directional hearing aids: then and now. , 2005, Journal of rehabilitation research and development.

[8]  Chin-Hui Lee,et al.  A maximum-likelihood approach to stochastic matching for robust speech recognition , 1996, IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process..

[9]  D B Hawkins,et al.  Signal-to-noise ratio advantage of binaural hearing aids and directional microphones under different levels of reverberation. , 1984, The Journal of speech and hearing disorders.

[10]  S. Boll,et al.  Suppression of acoustic noise in speech using spectral subtraction , 1979 .