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Bleeck - Designing better hearing aids using physiologically inspired speech enhancement

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Stefan Bleeck

Prof of Hearing Science and Technology
Research interests
  • The intersection of hearing science, audiology, and signal processing
  • Bio-inspired auditory modeling
  • Speech intelligibility in noise
Connect with Stefan

Email: S.Bleeck@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Thomas Blumensath

Professor
Research interests
  • I develop and study advanced algorithms that can solve challenging inverse problems by effici…
  • I work closely with state-of-the-art imaging facilities (µ-VIS, the National Research Facilit…
  • My research interests cover areas such as: Theoretical and computational methods for Signal a…
Connect with Thomas

Email: Thomas.Blumensath@soton.ac.uk

Dr Matthew Wright

Professor of Acoustical Education
Research interests
  • Musical instrument acoustics
  • Thermoviscous acoustics
  • Computer-enhanced learning
Connect with Matthew

Email: mcmw@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Tolerable delay for speech production and perception: effects of hearing ability and experience with hearing aids
Tobias Goehring, Josie Chapman, Stefan Bleeck & Jessica Monaghan, 2018, International Journal of Audiology
DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2017.1367848
Type: article
Auditory inspired machine learning techniques can improve speech intelligibility and quality for hearing-impaired listeners
Jessica J.M. Monaghan, Tobias Goehring, Xin Yang, Federico Bolner, Shangqiguo Wang, Matthew Wright & Stefan Bleeck, 2017, The Journal of The Acoustical Society of America, 141(3), 1985-1998
DOI: 10.1121/1.4977197
Type: article
Speech enhancement based on neural networks improves speech intelligibility in noise for cochlear implant users
Tobias Goehring, Federico Bolner, Jessica J. M. Monaghan, Bas van Dijk, Andrzej Zarowski & Stefan Bleeck, 2017, Hearing Research, 344, 183-194
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2016.11.012
Type: article
Speech enhancement based on neural networks applied to cochlear implant coding strategies
Federico Bolner, Tobias Goehring, Jessica Monaghan, Bas van Dijk, Jan Wouters & Stefan Bleeck, 2016
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472933
Type: conference
Enhancement of forward suppression begins in the ventral cochlear nucleus
Neil J. Ingham, Naoya Itatani, Stefan Bleeck & Ian M. Winter, 2016, Brain Research, 1639, 13-27
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.02.043
Type: article
Sparse non-negative matrix factorization strategy for cochlear implants
Hongmei Hu, Mark E. Lutman, Stephan D. Ewert, Guoping Li & Stefan Bleeck, 2015, Trends in Hearing, 19
DOI: 10.1177/2331216515616941
Type: article
Speech quality evaluation of a sparse coding shrinkage noise reduction algorithm with normal hearing and hearing impaired listeners
Jinqiu Sang, Hongmei Hu, Chengshi Zheng, Guoping Li, Mark E. Lutman & Stefan Bleeck, 2015, Hearing Research, 327, 175-185
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2015.07.019
Type: article