Sound intelligibility enhancement using a psychoacoustic model and an oversampled filterbank

摘要

A sound intelligibility enhancement (SIE) system is disclosed. The SIE system uses a psychoacoustic model and preferably an oversampled filterbank wherein the level of a signal-of-interest that falls below the environmental noise is selectively amplified as a function of the input level and frequency so that it is audible above the noise but never exceeds a predetermined maximum output level as a function of frequency. The SIE system can be combined with active noise cancellation.