Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

Daniel Marquardt

Tao Zhang

Deepak Kadetotad

Achin Bhowmik

A system includes a mobile device that receives an audio signal from a microphone of the mobile device. The mobile device processes the audio signal via a neural network to obtain a speech-enhanced audio signal. The system includes an ear-wearable device comprising a data interface operable to communicate with the external data interface of the mobile device. The ear-wearable device includes an audio processing path coupled to the data interface and is operable to receive the speech-enhanced audio signal and reproduce the speech-enhanced audio in an ear of a user.

Mobile device that provides sound enhancement for hearing device

An audio processing path receives an audio signal from a microphone of an ear-wearable device and reproduces the audio signal at a receiver that is placed within an ear of a user. A deep neural network (DNN) is coupled to the audio processing path that performs speech enhancement on the audio signal. An audio feature detector is operable to detect an audio change via the processing path that triggers a change of state of the DNN. The change of state affects resource consumption by the DNN. The change of state is applied to the DNN, and the DNN performs the speech enhancement in the changed state.

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Eden Prairie, MN, United States of America

Daniel Marquardt