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Convention Paper

An Auto-Tracking Auto-Beamforming Microphone Array for Sound Recording

Authors: Cao, Yuchang; Sridharan, Sridha; Moody, Miles

AES Convention 5r · Paper 4037 · March 1995

Abstract

An auto-seeking microphone array consisting of novel multistage processing is presented in this paper. The microphone array can automatically detect the desired speech in the presence of noise and track the speech sources. A combination of dual-beamforming and post-beamformer enhancement significantly improve the quality and intelligibility of desired speech at the output of the system. Applications for such a system include hands-free telephony, teleconferencing, and in the special situation where speech signals must be picked up in a noisy acoustic environment and the microphones are hidden (for example, in a forensic covert recording system).:

Details

Published in
AES Convention 5r
AES Convention
5r
Paper number
4037
Publication date
March 6, 1995
Affiliation
Speech Research Lab.Signal Processing Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper