Trigger Sound Suppression for Misophonia
Misophonia, a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds, affects 5-20% of the population, yet sufferers have no good options: therapy helps a minority, and earplugs or noise cancellation silence everything. We present a study for neural trigger sound suppression for misophonia, selectively removing trigger sounds. We curate a dataset covering the 10 most common trigger classes. Using streaming dual-path networks operating on 6 ms audio chunks, we explore both one-hot and multi-hot-conditioned models that suppress 1-3 triggers from the acoustic scene. We validate our model outputs in a listening study with 30 adults with clinically elevated misophonia impairment. Participants reported significantly lower distress and arousal, and improved valence, for suppressed audio.