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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2016
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Arthur Salvetti, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Martin McKinney, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for noise characterization and attenuation for hearing assistance devices. In various embodiments, a method of operating a hearing assistance device includes receiving an audio signal using a microphone of the hearing assistance device and identifying a transient in the audio signal. Linear predictive coding (LPC) is used to isolate speech segments and non-speech segments of the transient and fluctuating noise, and the non-speech segments of the transient and fluctuating noise are attenuated to reduce annoyance of the noise and maintain audibility of perceptually important transients in speech.