Research of front-end speech enhancement and beamforming algorithm based on dual microphoneforcochlear implant.
10.7507/1001-5515.201810025
- Author:
Yousheng CHEN
1
;
Yan CHEN
2
Author Information
1. Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518000, P.R.China.
2. Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518000, P.R.China.chenyan@sziit.edu.cn.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
beamforming;
cochlear implant;
dual microphone;
speech enhancement
- MeSH:
Algorithms;
Cochlear Implants;
Equipment Design;
Humans;
Noise;
Speech;
Speech Perception
- From:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2019;36(3):468-477
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Speech enhancement methods based on microphone array adopt many microphones to record speech signal simultaneously. As spatial information is increased, these methods can increase speech recognition for cochlear implant in noisy environment. Due to the size limitation, the number of microphones used in the cochlear implant cannot be too large, which limits the design of microphone array beamforming. To balance the size limitation of cochlear implant and the spatial orientation information of the signal acquisition, we propose a speech enhancement and beamforming algorithm based on dual thin uni-directional / omni-directional microphone pairs (TP) in this paper. Each TP microphone contains two sound tubes for signal acquisition, which increase the overall spatial orientation information. In this paper, we discuss the beamforming characteristics with different gain vectors and the influence of the inter-microphone distance on beamforming, which provides valuable theoretical analysis and engineering parameters for the application of dual microphone speech enhancement technology in cochlear implants.
