A Real-time, Open, Portable, Extensible Speech Lab

摘要 目前使用信号处理算法来提高助听器中的语音可懂度的努力受到阻碍 需要重新发明跨研究实验室的实时处理工具。知识产权和 金钱上的考虑阻止了商业公司公开共享处理工具， 商用助听器在研究中的实用性。因此，许多学术创新 有可能改善听力保健的方法还没有得到测试和评估。此外，当 如果在学术研究中使用封闭的专有设备， 当不知道信号处理流水线中的子系统的相关细节时的发现。在这 建议，我们的目标是开发一个开放的，可重构的，非专有的，可穿戴的，实时语音处理 使用现有助听器技术中不具备的处理和数据收集方法的系统 听力学家和助听器研究人员将能够轻松地使用它来研究新的助听器。 实验室和实地研究中的算法。使用新颖的语音处理算法，这个开放获取的工具 专为听力学家和助听器研究人员设计， 研究和促进技术进步转化为广泛的临床应用。

ABSTRACT Current efforts to improve speech intelligibility in hearing aids using signal processing algorithms are hampered by the need to reinvent realtime processing tools across research labs. Intellectual property rights and monetary considerations prevent the open sharing of processing tools from commercial companies and limit the usefulness of commercially available hearing aids in research. As a result, many academic innovations that could potentially improve hearing health care are not being tested and evaluated. Furthermore, when closed, proprietary devices are used in academic research, it becomes difficult to assess the impact of the findings when pertinent details of the subsystems in the signal processing pipeline are not known. In this proposal, we aim to develop an open, reconfigurable, non-proprietary, wearable, realtime speech processing system that uses processing and data collection approaches not available in existing hearing-aid technology that Audiologists and hearing aid researchers will be able to easily use to investigate new hearing aid algorithms in lab and field studies. Using novel speech processing algorithms, this open-access tool specifically designed for audiologists and hearing aid researchers will help accelerate hearing health care research studies and facilitate translation of technology advances into widespread clinical use.