Open community platform for hearing aid algorithm research: open Master Hearing Aid (openMHA)
This provides a community tool for hearing aid researchers to develop and test new algorithms without proprietary limitations, though it is incremental as it builds on existing open-source concepts.
The researchers tackled the lack of open-source platforms for hearing aid algorithm development by creating openMHA, a flexible software framework that supports sustainable and reproducible research across multiple operating systems and hardware architectures.
open Master Hearing Aid (openMHA) was developed and provided to the hearing aid research community as an open-source software platform with the aim to support sustainable and reproducible research towards improvement and new types of assistive hearing systems not limited by proprietary software. The software offers a flexible framework that allows the users to conduct hearing aid research using tools and a number of signal processing plugins provided with the software as well as the implementation of own methods. The openMHA software is independent of a specific hardware and supports Linux, macOS and Windows operating systems as well as 32-bit and 64-bit ARM-based architectures such as used in small portable integrated systems. www.openmha.org