Impact of auditory attention decoding accuracy on noise reduction systems for hearing aids (2026)

摘要

Hearing aid users often struggle to focus on a specific target speaker in multi-talker environments. Auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms, which extract attentional cues from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, offer a potential solution. This study evaluates how AAD accuracy and decision window length affect the performance of a multichannel Wiener filter noise reduction system in a speaker and story-independent scenario. Simulations in two-speaker anechoic conditions show that, for decision windows of 1 s or less, AAD accuracies approximately above 81 % are required to meet minimum conversational speech quality (PESQ = 2.0), while accuracies approximately above 64 % suffice for intelligibility (STOI = 0.62). These results define quantitative performance targets for integrating AAD-based noise reduction into hearing aids and highlight the trade-off between decision latency, decoding accuracy, and perceptual benefit under idealized beamforming/VAD and anechoic conditions with high-density EEG.

EEG-based detection of the locus of auditory attention with convolutional neural networks (2021)

摘要

In a multi-speaker scenario, the human auditory system is able to attend to one particular speaker of interest and ignore the others. It has been demonstrated that it is possible to use electroencephalography (EEG) signals to infer to which speaker someone is attending by relating the neural activity to the speech signals. However, classifying auditory attention within a short time interval remains the main challenge. We present a convolutional neural network-based approach to extract the locus of auditory attention (left/right) without knowledge of the speech envelopes. Our results show that it is possible to decode the locus of attention within 1–2 s, with a median accuracy of around 81%. These results are promising for neuro-steered noise suppression in hearing aids, in particular in scenarios where per-speaker envelopes are unavailable.

1. Acknowledgments

这一部分可以给论文致谢的英文表达提供很好的参考。

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• I would like to acknowledge the enormous help given to me in creating this book.

“我想感谢在我写这本书过程中给予我巨大帮助的人/支持。

acknowledge the enormous help → “致谢、感谢巨大的帮助”，学术写作、书籍前言里很常见。

given to me in creating this book → 表示“在创作这本书的过程中给予我的帮助”。

1. Love in the Time of Cholera

Cholera：西语的两个含义，霍乱，乱七八糟

爱是一个人的兵荒马乱

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CHAPTER ONE

IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love .

• almond /ˈɑː.mənd/ 杏仁

• bitter adj. 令人痛苦的；怨恨的；苦的

• unrequited /ˌʌn.rɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/ adj. （爱情）单相思的、得不到回报的

  requited love 彼此相爱 （requite v. 报答、回复）

• remind sb. of sth. 使某人想起某事

  remind sb. of doing sth. 提醒某人做过某事

  remind sb. to do sth. 提醒某人要去做某事