Linear versus deep learning methods for noisy speech separation for EEG-informed attention decoding.

Journal of Neural Engineering
Neetha DasAlexander Bertrand

Abstract

A hearing aid's noise reduction algorithm cannot infer to which speaker the user intends to listen to. Auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms allow to infer this information from neural signals, which leads to the concept of neuro-steered hearing aids. We aim to evaluate and demonstrate the feasibility of AAD-supported speech enhancement in challenging noisy conditions based on electroencephalography recordings. The AAD performance with a linear versus a deep neural network (DNN) based speaker separation was evaluated for same-gender speaker mixtures using three different speaker positions and three different noise conditions. AAD results based on the linear approach were found to be at least on par and sometimes even better than pure DNN-based approaches in terms of AAD accuracy in all tested conditions. However, when using the DNN to support a linear data-driven beamformer, a performance improvement over the purely linear approach was obtained in the most challenging scenarios. The use of multiple microphones was also found to improve speaker separation and AAD performance over single-microphone systems. Recent proof-of-concept studies in this context each focus on a different method in a different experimental setting,...Continue Reading

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