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

实时、开放、便携式、可扩展的语音实验室

• 批准号: 9155285
• 负责人: Harinath Garudadri
• 金额: $ 43.84万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9155285
• 关键词: Acoustics; Algorithms; Audiology; Binaural; Cellular Phone; Characteristics; Clinical; Communities; Computer software; Data Collection; Development; Devices; Ear; Engineering; Ensure; Environment; Evaluation; Feedback; Fostering; Future; Generations; Goals; Health Care Research; Healthcare; Hearing; Hearing Aids; Instruction; Intellectual Property; Laboratories; Libraries; Longevity; Noise; Output; Process; Property Rights; Protocols documentation; Publishing; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Running; Sampling; Science; Scientist; Signal Transduction; Software Engineering; Source Code; Speech; Speech Intelligibility; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Translational Research; Translations; Validation; Vision; Wireless Technology; base; clinical practice; design; digital; engineering design; field study; hearing impairment; improved; innovation; novel; open source; prevent; research study; response; signal processing; skills; speech processing; tool

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.

抽象的 当前使用信号处理算法提高助听器中语音清晰度的努力受到阻碍 由于需要在研究实验室重新发明实时处理工具。知识产权和 货币注意事项阻止了商业公司开放的处理工具的公开共享，并限制 市售助听器在研究中的有用性。结果，许多学术创新 这可能会改善听力医疗保健的测试和评估。此外，什么时候 封闭的专有设备用于学术研究，很难评估 当尚不清楚信号处理管道中的子系统的相关细节时。在这个 提案，我们旨在开发开放，重新配置，非专有，可穿戴，实时演讲处理 现有助听器技术中使用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用于调查新的助听器 实验室和现场研究中的算法。使用新颖的语音处理算法，此开放访问工具 专门为听力学家和助听器研究人员设计的将有助于加速听力医疗保健 研究并促进技术进步转化为广泛的临床用途。