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Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in full-duplex communication systems eliminates acoustic feedback. However, nonlinear distortions induced by audio devices, background noise, reverberation, and double-talk reduce the efficiency of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Vinay Kothapally , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

We consider the problem of recognizing speech utterances spoken to a device which is generating a known sound waveform; for example, recognizing queries issued to a digital assistant which is generating responses to previous user inputs.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Nathan Howard , Alex Park , Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary , Alexander Gruenstein , Rohit Prabhavalkar

Acoustic echo cannot be entirely removed by linear adaptive filters due to the nonlinear relationship between the echo and far-end signal. Usually a post processing module is required to further suppress the echo. In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Hongsheng Chen , Teng Xiang , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is essential for accurate recognition of queries spoken to a smart speaker that is playing out audio. Previous work has shown that a neural AEC model operating on log-mel spectral features (denoted "logmel"…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Sankaran Panchapagesan , Arun Narayanan , Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary , Shuai Shao , Nathan Howard , Alex Park , James Walker , Alexander Gruenstein

With the increasing demand for audio communication and online conference, ensuring the robustness of Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) under the complicated acoustic scenario including noise, reverberation and nonlinear distortion has become…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Shimin Zhang , Yuxiang Kong , Shubo Lv , Yanxin Hu , Lei Xie

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is an essential speech signal processing technology that removes echoes from microphone inputs to facilitate natural-sounding full-duplex communication. Currently, deep learning-based AEC methods primarily…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fei Zhao , Xueliang Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown promising results for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). But the DNN-based AEC models let through all near-end speakers including the interfering speech. In light of recent studies on personalized…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Shimin Zhang , Ziteng Wang , Yukai Ju , Yihui Fu , Yueyue Na , Qiang Fu , Lei Xie

Recent work has shown that it is possible to train a single model to perform joint acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), speech enhancement, and voice separation, thereby serving as a unified frontend for robust automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Tom O'Malley , Arun Narayanan , Quan Wang

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have greatly surpassed their traditional counterparts and are now being considered for the task of removing acoustic echo from hands-free communication systems. This is a challenging…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Jean-Marc Valin , Srikanth Tenneti , Karim Helwani , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Neural networks have led to tremendous performance gains for single-task speech enhancement, such as noise suppression and acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). In this work, we evaluate whether it is more useful to use a single joint or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Sebastian Braun , Maria Luis Valero

This paper presents a real-time Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) algorithm submitted to the AEC-Challenge. The algorithm consists of three modules: Generalized Cross-Correlation with PHAse Transform (GCC-PHAT) based time delay compensation,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ziteng Wang , Yueyue Na , Zhang Liu , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu

Echo and noise suppression is an integral part of a full-duplex communication system. Many recent acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) systems rely on a separate adaptive filtering module for linear echo suppression and a neural module for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Woon-Seng Gan , Shengkui Zhao , Bin Ma

Building on the deep learning based acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in the single-loudspeaker (single-channel) and single-microphone setup, this paper investigates multi-channel AEC (MCAEC) and multi-microphone AEC (MMAEC). We train a deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Hao Zhang , DeLiang Wang

Deep neural network (DNN)-based approaches to acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and hybrid speech enhancement systems have gained increasing attention recently, introducing significant performance improvements to this research field. Using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Jan Franzen , Tim Fingscheidt

Acoustic echo and background noise can seriously degrade the intelligibility of speech. In practice, echo and noise suppression are usually treated as two separated tasks and can be removed with various digital signal processing (DSP) and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Xiaofeng Shu , Yehang Zhu , Yanjie Chen , Li Chen , Haohe Liu , Chuanzeng Huang , Yuxuan Wang

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) remains challenging in real-world environments due to nonlinear distortions caused by low-cost loudspeakers and complex room acoustics. To mitigate these issues, we introduce a dual-microphone configuration,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Fei Zhao , Zhong-Qiu Wang

We propose a nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation system, which aims to model the echo path from the far-end signal to the near-end microphone in two parts. Inspired by the physical behavior of modern hands-free devices, we first introduce…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Amir Ivry , Israel Cohen , Baruch Berdugo

In this research, we present an innovative, parameter-efficient model that utilizes the attention U-Net architecture for the automatic detection and eradication of non-speech vocal sounds, specifically breath sounds, in vocal recordings.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Nidula Elgiriyewithana , N. D. Kodikara

This paper applies the dual-signal transformation LSTM network (DTLN) to the task of real-time acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). The DTLN combines a short-time Fourier transformation and a learned feature representation in a stacked network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Nils L. Westhausen , Bernd T. Meyer

Traditionally, adaptive filters have been deployed to achieve AEC by estimating the acoustic echo response using algorithms such as the Normalized Least-Mean-Square (NLMS) algorithm. Several approaches have been proposed over recent years…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Urmila Shrawankar