Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 15 | Selective Listening |
Bryce Tharp John Hammond Wei Yang Ang |
Evan Widloski | design_document2.pdf design_document3.pdf design_document4.pdf final_paper2.pdf presentation1.pptx proposal1.pdf |
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| Team Members: johnwh2/John Hammond wya3/Wei Yang Ang brycet2/Bryce Tharp Imagine you are in a noisy environment (a restaurant, concert venue, etc) and you want to listen to one person or “source” in particular. For individuals who struggle with hearing loss this can be a challenging situation, even with modern hearing aids. We want to continue the work done by Ryan Corey and create a system that will allow the user to listen to a single source at a time, when many sources are present. This project is a continuation of work done by the Augmented Listening Laboratory (Bryce Tharp and John Hammond have been working on this system in previous semesters). This innovation in listening technology attempts to make substantive improvements to traditional hearing aids using multiple microphones as opposed to the standard two microphone hearing aid. Our proposed solution focuses around a few different subsystems to selectively hear a unique source. We will create a pair of binaural headphones along with a microphone array that the user can wear to hear the desired source . Additionally, we will create a “Volume Control Interface” to manage the volume on one or multiple sources. Finally, we will have additional circuitry using ADCs, Amplifiers, etc. to support the microphones. Much of the software/firmware of the project will be on an FPGA (continuing the work of students in the research group), and the DSP algorithms we will use come from Ryan Corey’s thesis. |
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