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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Malaspina Labs (Barbados), Inc., Vancouver, CA;
Pierre Zakarauskas, Vancouver, CA;
Alexander Escott, Vancouver, CA;
Clarence S. H. Chu, Vancouver, CA;
Shawn E. Stevenson, Burnaby, CA;
Malaspina Labs (Barbados) Inc., Upton, St. Michael, BB;
Abstract
Implementations of systems, method and devices described herein enable enhancing the intelligibility of a target voice signal included in a noisy audible signal received by a hearing aid device or the like. In particular, in some implementations, systems, methods and devices are operable to generate a machine readable formant based codebook. In some implementations, the method includes determining whether or not a candidate codebook tuple includes a sufficient amount of new information to warrant either adding the candidate codebook tuple to the codebook or using at least a portion of the candidate codebook tuple to update an existing codebook tuple. Additionally and/or alternatively, in some implementations systems, methods and devices are operable to reconstruct a target voice signal by detecting formants in an audible signal, using the detected formants to select codebook tuples, and using the formant information in the selected codebook tuples to reconstruct the target voice signal.