Abstract
For hearing aids, it is critical to reduce the acoustic coupling between the receiver and microphone to ensure that prescribed gains are below the maximum stable gain, thus preventing acoustic feedback. Methods for doing this include fixed and adaptive feedback cancellation, phase modulation, and gain reduction. However, the behavior of hearing aids in situations where the prescribed gain is only just below the maximum stable gain, called here "marginally stable gain," is not well understood. This paper analyzed marginally stable systems and identified three problems, including increased gain at frequencies with the smallest gain margin, short whistles caused by the limited rate of decay of the output when the input drops, and coloration effects. A deep learning framework, called deep marginal feedback cancellation (DeepMFC), was developed to suppress short whistles, and reduce coloration effects, as well as to limit excess amplification at certain frequencies. To implement DeepMFC, many receiver signals in closed-loop systems and corresponding open-loop systems were simulated, and the receiver signals of the closed-loop and open-loop systems were paired together to obtain parallel signals for training. DeepMFC achieved much better performance than existing feedback control methods using objective and subjective measures.
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