Improving Speech Understanding in Adverse Listening Environments using Distributed Microphone Processing

References  Speech understanding in highly adverse listening environments remains a major challenge for hearing aid wearers  In natural conversations, talkers move around freely. In addition to hearing aid microphones, there are microphones on other devices such as smartphones  With wireless connectivity, it is possible to utilize not only hearing aid microphones, but also other wirelessly connected microphones to improve speech understanding in such an adverse listening environment  Goal  Preliminary illustration of the benefits using a distributed microphone processing algorithm  Discuss the challenges in deploying such an algorithm in real-world