Malek Itani

schoolUniversity Of Washingtonbar_chart#8515 Global Rank

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Look Once to Hear: Target Speech Hearing with Noisy Examples

In crowded settings, the human brain can focus on speech from a target speaker, given prior knowledge of how they sound. We introduce a novel intelligent hearable system that achieves this capability, enabling target speech hearing to ignore all interfering speech and noise, but the target speaker. A naive approach…

UIST '232nd AuthorDeaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration) +1

Semantic Hearing: Programming Acoustic Scenes with Binaural Hearables

Imagine being able to listen to the birds chirping in a park without hearing the chatter from other hikers, or being able to block out traffic noise on a busy street while still being able to hear emergency sirens and car honks. We introduce semantic hearing, a novel capability for hearable devices that enables them t…

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