Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication

© 2015 IEEE. In industrial noise environments, the use of assistive listening headsets is a means to provide adequate access to voice communication while wearing hearing protection. This paper presents a performance evaluation and comparison of two different methods to provide the binaural speech en...

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Main Authors: Nordholm, Sven, Davis, A., Yong, P., Dam, Hai Huyen Heidi
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15882
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description © 2015 IEEE. In industrial noise environments, the use of assistive listening headsets is a means to provide adequate access to voice communication while wearing hearing protection. This paper presents a performance evaluation and comparison of two different methods to provide the binaural speech enhancement in real industrial noise scenarios. The investigated binaural methods based on differential beamforming and multichannel Wiener filter show different strengths and weaknesses. A transient noise suppression algorithm is also proposed and evaluated. Performance evaluation shows that this algorithm, together with the binaural multi-channel Wiener filter approach, can successfully reduce the hammering noise. This can be observed from the PESQ scores and the signal characteristics.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-158822017-09-13T14:08:01Z Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication Nordholm, Sven Davis, A. Yong, P. Dam, Hai Huyen Heidi © 2015 IEEE. In industrial noise environments, the use of assistive listening headsets is a means to provide adequate access to voice communication while wearing hearing protection. This paper presents a performance evaluation and comparison of two different methods to provide the binaural speech enhancement in real industrial noise scenarios. The investigated binaural methods based on differential beamforming and multichannel Wiener filter show different strengths and weaknesses. A transient noise suppression algorithm is also proposed and evaluated. Performance evaluation shows that this algorithm, together with the binaural multi-channel Wiener filter approach, can successfully reduce the hammering noise. This can be observed from the PESQ scores and the signal characteristics. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15882 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179074 fulltext
spellingShingle Nordholm, Sven
Davis, A.
Yong, P.
Dam, Hai Huyen Heidi
Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication
title Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication
title_full Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication
title_fullStr Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication
title_full_unstemmed Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication
title_short Assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: Protection and communication
title_sort assistive listening headsets for high noise environments: protection and communication
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15882