In Silico Modeling of the RAMPHO Buffer: Dissociating Informational and Energetic Masking via Phonetic Entropy in Deep Neural Networks

The fundamental challenge of listening in multi-talker environments is a cognitive bottleneck, defined by the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model as a failure within the RAMPHO episodic buffer. Current deep neural networks for speech enhancement optimize purely for physical acoustics, failing...