A beamformer for binaural speech enhancement systems in digital hearing aids is proposed. Its single modules for the estimation of the time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) and time-alignment operate in the frequency-domain and have a low computational complexity. The TDOA estimation is performed efficiently by a generalized cross-correlation with phase transform weighting. The estimation accuracy for filter-banks with a limited number of subbands, which are needed for hearing aids to meet tight delay constraints, is improved by a histogram-based TDOA estimation. The subsequent time-alignment is accomplished by a simple multiplication with spectral phase factors. A primary application of the proposed system are binaural cue preserving speech enhancement systems based on spectral weighting. The proposed beamformer can be used as delay-and-sum and/or delay-and-subtract beamformer to provide subband signals from which the power spectral densities of interfering sources can be estimated to drive the spectral weight calculation.
Beamformer for driving binaural speech enhancement
2012
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