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Controllable joint noise reduction and hearing loss compensation using a differentiable auditory model

Gonzalez et al., 2025

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Gonzalez P
Dau T
May T
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arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09372

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Deep learning-based hearing loss compensation (HLC) seeks to enhance speech intelligibility and quality for hearing impaired listeners using neural networks. One major challenge of HLC is the lack of a ground-truth target. Recent works have used neural …
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