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

摘要 目前使用信号处理算法来改善助听器中的语音清晰度的努力受到阻碍 需要在研究实验室中重新发明实时处理工具。知识产权和 资金方面的考虑阻碍了商业公司公开共享加工工具，并限制了 市场上可买到的助听器在研究中的作用。因此，许多学术创新 这可能会改善听力保健，目前还没有进行测试和评估。此外，当 在学术研究中使用封闭的专有设备，就很难评估 当信号处理管道中的子系统的相关细节未知时的发现。在这 我们的目标是开发一种开放的、可重构的、非专有的、可穿戴的、实时的语音处理 使用现有助听器技术中不可用的处理和数据收集方法的系统 听觉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。使用新的语音处理算法，这个开放获取的工具 专门为听力专家和助听器研究人员设计的将有助于加快听力保健 研究和促进将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.