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Noise Cancellation using Microphone Array in Digital Hearing Aids  

Bang, Dong-Hyeouck (인하대학교 전자공학과)
Kil, Se-Kee (인하대학교 전자공학과 정보전자공동연구소)
Kang, Hyun-Deok (인하대학교 전자공학과)
Yoon, Gwang-Sub (인하대학교 전자공학과 정보전자공동연구소)
Lee, Sang-Min (인하대학교 전자공학과 정보전자공동연구소)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.58, no.4, 2009 , pp. 857-866 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a noise cancellation-method using microphone array for digital hearing aids is proposed. The microphone array is located around the ear of a dummy. Speech sound is generated from the forward speaker positioned in the front of the dummy and noise sound is generated from the backward speaker. The speech and noise are mixed in the air space and entered into the microphones. VAD(voice activity detector) and ANC(adaptive noise cancellation) methods were used to eliminate noise in the sound of the microphones. 10 two-syllable words and 4 sentences were used for speech signals. Babble and car interior noise were used for noise signals. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated by SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) and PESQ-MOS(perceptual evaluation of speech quality-mean opinion score). In babble noise condition, SNR was improved as much as $7.963{\pm}1.3620dB\;and\;3.968{\pm}0.6659dB$ for words and sentences respectively. In the case of car interior noise, SNR was improved as $10.512{\pm}2.0665dB\;and\;6.000{\pm}1.7642dB$ for words and sentences respectively. PESQ-MOS of the babble noise was improved as much as $0.1722{\pm}0.0861$ score for words and $0.083{\pm}0.0417$ score for sentences. And PESQ-MOS of the car interior noise was improved as $0.2661{\pm}0.0335$ score and $0.040{\pm}0.0201$ score for words and sentences respectively. It is verified that the proposed algorithm has a good performance in noise cancellation of microphone array for digital hearing aids.
Keywords
Digital hearing aids; Microphone array; Adaptive noise cancellation;
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