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Perceptually Motivated Low Complexity Acoustic Echo Control

Authors: Faller, Christof

AES Convention 114 · Paper 5783 · March 2003

Abstract

In hands-free two-way communications systems, the loudspeaker signal feeds back to the microphone, resulting in an undesired echo signal component in the microphone signal. Acoustic echo cancelers (AEC) model the echo path and subtract an estimate of the echo signal from the microphone signal to remove the undesired echo. We present a novel scheme which estimates the echo signal in terms of its spectral envelope. The time and frequency resolution with which this estimation is carried out is chosen according to perceptual criteria. Given the estimated spectral envelope of the echo signal component, speech enhancement and noise suppression algorithms are used to suppress the echo. The presented scheme has low complexity and a high degree of robustness.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 114
AES Convention
114
Paper number
5783
Publication date
March 6, 2003
Session subject
Audio Networking
Affiliation
Media Signal Processing Research, Agere Systems, Murray Hill, NJ (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper