A Method of Wide Dynamic Range Compression Based on Curve Compression Applying on Hearing Aids

Abstract

Recently, there is a growing trend to investigate wide dynamic range compression technique with the development of hearing aids. However, existing methods used to enhance expected speech as well as the background noise and classical linear compression can’t achieve the requirements of hearing impaired individuals’ reaction to the loudness compensation flexibly. To cope with the problems, this paper proposes a new approach to suppress the enhanced background noise and to dismiss abnormal sound caused by severe jittering from high frequency signal. What’s more, a scheme of curve compression is introduced to improve the loudness amplifying flexibility instead of conventional linear compression. Both the theoretical simulation and testing on cellphone hearing aid APP based on android system prove the proposed method can improve the performance of speech enhancement and provide more choices to strength sound with the curve compression ratio.