Portable Hearing Laboratory

国家耳聋和其他沟通障碍研究所（NIDCD）最近 资助了一些项目（以下称为“并行项目”），以开发便携式 信号处理工具，提供大量的计算能力，实时处理的 声环境总体目标是提供一大批研究人员 （“社区”）的手段，有效地开发和评估，在协作多中心 环境，新颖的信号处理方案，个性化的拟合程序，和技术 助听器和助听器等听力设备的解决方案和服务。 在已经资助的项目1 R 01 DC 015429（Hohmann和Pavlovic）中，我们的重点是 为标准PC平台的实时运行环境开发开放源代码， 标准声音硬件（Windows和Linux操作系统）以及ARM平台 （Beaglebone黑色，带2/2通道和6/2通道AD/DA（Linux））。此外，为了使研究人员能够 在现场使用小型可穿戴设备进行测试，支持ARM Cortex®-M4微控制器 (i.e.库调用Cortex内核例程）也将从2018年7月1日起包含在内。 这个补充项目的目的是开发一个便携式，刚性，多功能， 可穿戴平台，采用ARM Cortex®-M4处理器，能够运行开发的软件 霍曼和帕夫洛维奇的合作项目便携式助听器 平台（PHACP）由两个硬件元素组成，以提供所需的高级 提供基本设备内数据流的功能和软件例程（操作 系统）以及与诸如电话和遥控器等其他设备互连 麦克风。 这个项目带来的是唯一的平台，不仅是便携式的物理，但提供 研究人员可能需要授权甚至构思新算法的所有功能。 此外，该公司还将推出该设备，用于向消费者市场销售， 为听力受损的个人提供前所未有的性能。最重要的是， 研究人员立即将创新的算法流移植到设备上， 提供持续和可持续的竞争优势。

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has recently funded a number of projects (referred further to as “concurrent projects”) to develop portable signal processing tools that provide substantial computing power for real-time processing of the acoustic environment. The overarching goal is to provide a large group of researchers (”Community”) with the means to efficiently develop and evaluate, in collaborative multi-center environments, novel signal processing schemes, individualized fitting procedures, and technical solutions and services for hearing devices such as hearing aids and assistive listening devices. In the already funded project 1R01DC015429 (Hohmann and Pavlovic) our emphases is on developing open source code for real-time runtime environments for standard PC platforms with standard sound hardware (Windows and Linux operating systems) as well as for ARM platforms (Beaglebone black with 2/2- and 6/2-ch AD/DA (Linux)). Furthermore, to enable researchers to perform testing with small size wearables in the field, ARM Cortex®-M4 micro-controller support (i.e. library calls to the Cortex kernel routines) will be also included from July 1 2018. The purpose of this complementary project is to develop a portable, rigid, versatile and wearable platform featuring an ARM Cortex®-M4 processor and able to run software developed in the concurrent project of Hohmann and Pavlovic. This Portable Hearing Aid Community Platform (PHACP) consists of both hardware elements to provide the advanced desired functionality and software routines to provide the basic intra-device data flow (operating system) as well as interconnectivity with other devices such as telephones and remote microphones. What this projects brings is the only platform that is not only portable physically, but provides for all the features that researchers may need to empower or even conceive new algorithms. In addition, the company will launch the device for the sales into consumer market where it will provide for unprecedented performance by the hearing impaired individuals. Most importantly, the innovative stream of algorithms ported immediately by the researchers to the device would provide for a continuous and sustainable competitive advantage.