Research on Digital Hearing Aid Speech Enhancement Algorithm

The microphone array speech enhancement algorithm (MASEA), the minimum mean square error algorithm for short-time logarithmic spectrum estimation based on voice activity detection (VAD-LSA-MMSE), and the Wiener filtering algorithm based on voice activity detection (VAD-Wiener) are currently the three most commonly used speech enhancement algorithms. Among them, the MASEA algorithm has some disadvantages such as poor noise reduction effect. VAD-LSA-MMSE algorithm has some disadvantages of relying on high SNR and introducing music noise, thereby reducing the intelligibility. The VAD-Wiener algorithm has some disadvantages such as higher SNR requirements. Aiming at the shortcomings of these three speech enhancement algorithms, based on the VAD algorithm and the MASEA algorithm, this paper proposed a new speech enhancement algorithm by combining the characteristics of Wiener filtering algorithm and LSA-MMSE algorithm. The new speech enhancement algorithm is a VAD-based microphone array speech enhancement algorithm (VAD-MASEA). VAD-MASEA is better than the other three algorithms in noise reduction, speech enhancement and voice intelligibility, and has the characteristics of adapting to a lower SNR environment. This paper used MATLAB to carry out experimental research, including the new algorithm and the three existing algorithms were simulated and compared the signal waveforms of the four algorithms. Experimental results show that the proposed VAD-MASEA algorithm overcomes the high SNR requirement and can be used in low SNR environments and obtain highly intelligible enhanced signals.