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AssigneeStarkey Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsAlaganandan Ganeshkumar, Jinjun Xiao, Jinjing Xu, Larissa Anne Taylor, Xiaojian Lu, Shivakrishna Charka, Lavanya Vimal Kumar
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Enhancing sound in an ear-wearable device involves receiving an ambient sound stream from a microphone of an ear-wearable device and inputting a representation of the ambient sound stream to a deep neural network that is trained to detect speech in a noisy environment. In response to detecting the speech via the deep neural network, the ear-wearable device operates in a directional mode in which an audio representation derived from the ambient sound stream is emphasized in a target direction. In response to detecting no speech via the deep neural network, the ear-wearable device operates in a spatial omnidirectional mode in which a fixed directional mode signal is combined with an omnidirectional signal to provide the audio representation. The fixed directional mode signal and the omnidirectional signal operate over different frequency ranges.
A method of enhancing sound in an ear-wearable device, the method implemented via a processor of the ear-wearable device, the method comprising:
An ear-wearable device, comprising:
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