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A Double-Talk Detector Using Audio Watermarking

Authors: Szwoch, Grzegorz; Czyzewski, Andrzej; Ciarkowski, Andrzej

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society · Volume 57 · Issue 11 · pp. 916–926 · November 2009

Abstract

Echo cancellation is one of the most important factors affecting the quality of speech communications using voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP), especially when users have discrete microphones and loudspeakers rather than a standard headset. Because the remote voice appears near the loudspeaker, both the near and far voices appear at the microphone. A new approach to aid the echo-cancelling algorithm embeds a hidden watermark signal into the arriving signal. Detecting this signature allows the algorithm to stop or restart the process of the adaptive echo cancellation.

Details

Publication
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Volume
57
Issue
11
Pages
916–926
Publication date
November 6, 2009
Affiliation
Multimedia Systems Department, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Journal Article