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Two-step Band-split Neural Network Approach for Full-band Residual Echo Suppression

Audio and Speech Processing 2023-03-14 v1

Abstract

This paper describes a Two-step Band-split Neural Network (TBNN) approach for full-band acoustic echo cancellation. Specifically, after linear filtering, we split the full-band signal into wide-band (16KHz) and high-band (16-48KHz) for residual echo removal with lower modeling difficulty. The wide-band signal is processed by an updated gated convolutional recurrent network (GCRN) with U2^2 encoder while the high-band signal is processed by a high-band post-filter net with lower complexity. Our approach submitted to ICASSP 2023 AEC Challenge has achieved an overall mean opinion score (MOS) of 4.344 and a word accuracy (WAcc) ratio of 0.795, leading to the 2nd^{nd} (tied) in the ranking of the non-personalized track.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06828,
  title  = {Two-step Band-split Neural Network Approach for Full-band Residual Echo Suppression},
  author = {Zihan Zhang and Shimin Zhang and Mingshuai Liu and Yanhong Leng and Zhe Han and Li Chen and Lei Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06828},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted by ICASSP 2023

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