A comprehensive method applying a nonlinear frequency compression(FC) as complementary to multiband loudness compensation is proposed, which is able to improve loudness compensation and simultaneously increase high-frequency speech intelligibility for digital hearing aids. First, to avoid the spectral distortions in the sounds, speech intelligibility-based frequency spectrum splitting is introduced. Then a nonlinear FC(NLFC) is also proposed to compress the high-frequency sounds to the lower bands where the...
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