Author:
Hsiao Wei-Chen,Chen Yung-Ching,Liu Yi-Wen
Abstract
The distortion-product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) is a backward propagating wave generated inside the cochlea during the wave amplification process. The DPOAE signal can be detected rapidly under relatively noisy conditions. In recent years, the earphone industry demonstrated interest in adopting DPOAE as an add-on feature to make their product “intelligent” of inner-ear status. However, a technical challenge remains to be tackled—the loudspeaker in an earphone generates its own cubic distortion at the same frequency as DPOAE. Unfortunately, the intensity of loudspeaker distortion is typically comparable to that of the DPOAE, if not higher. In this research, we propose two strategies, namely compensation and cancellation, to enable DPOAE measurement with a single loudspeaker. The compensation strategy exploits the part of the growth function of the loudspeaker distortion which is almost linear, and thus suppresses the distortion it generates while retaining a larger portion of DPOAE in the residual signal. The cancellation strategy utilizes a one-dimensional Volterra filter to remove the cubic distortion from the loudspeaker. Testing on normal-hearing ears shows that the compensation strategy improved the DPOAE-to-interference ratio by approximately 7 dB, resulting in a cross-correlation of 0.62 between the residual DPOAE level and the true DPOAE level. Meanwhile, the cancellation strategy directly recovered both the magnitude and the phase of DPOAE, reducing the magnitude estimation error from 15.5 dB to 3.9 dB in the mean-square sense. These pilot results suggest that the cancellation strategy may be suitable for further testing with more subjects.
Funder
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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1. Cancelling Intermodulation Distortions for Otoacoustic Emission Measurements with Earbuds;ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP);2023-06-04