A new method in digital hearing aids to adaptively localize the speech source in noise and reverberant environment is proposed. Based on the room reverberant model and the multichannel adaptive eigenvalue decompositi...A new method in digital hearing aids to adaptively localize the speech source in noise and reverberant environment is proposed. Based on the room reverberant model and the multichannel adaptive eigenvalue decomposition (MCAED) algorithm, the proposed method can iteratively estimate impulse response coefficients between the speech source and microphones by the adaptive subgradient projection method. Then, it acquires the time delays of microphone pairs, and calculates the source position by the geometric method. Compared with the traditional normal least mean square (NLMS) algorithm, the adaptive subgradient projection method achieves faster and more accurate convergence in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environment. Simulations for glasses digital hearing aids with four-component square array demonstrate the robust performance of the proposed method.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60872073)~~
文摘A new method in digital hearing aids to adaptively localize the speech source in noise and reverberant environment is proposed. Based on the room reverberant model and the multichannel adaptive eigenvalue decomposition (MCAED) algorithm, the proposed method can iteratively estimate impulse response coefficients between the speech source and microphones by the adaptive subgradient projection method. Then, it acquires the time delays of microphone pairs, and calculates the source position by the geometric method. Compared with the traditional normal least mean square (NLMS) algorithm, the adaptive subgradient projection method achieves faster and more accurate convergence in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environment. Simulations for glasses digital hearing aids with four-component square array demonstrate the robust performance of the proposed method.