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In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) were studied as an alternative to traditional acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) algorithms. The proposed models achieved remarkable performance for the separate tasks of AEC and residual echo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Ernst Seidel , Jan Franzen , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

Deep learning based techniques have been popularly adopted in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). Utilization of speaker representation has extended the frontier of AEC, thus attracting many researchers' interest in personalized acoustic echo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zihan Zhang , Jiayao Sun , Xianjun Xia , Ziqian Wang , Xiaopeng Yan , Yijian Xiao , Lei Xie

In this paper a generalized postfilter algorithm design issues are presented. This postfilter is used to jointly suppress late reverberation, residual echo, and background noise. When residual echo and noise are suppressed, the best result…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Urmila Shrawankar , V M Thakare

We consider the problem of simultaneous reduction of acoustic echo, reverberation and noise. In real scenarios, these distortion sources may occur simultaneously and reducing them implies combining the corresponding distortion-specific…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Guillaume Carbajal , Romain Serizel , Emmanuel Vincent , Eric Humbert

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

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

This paper presents an acoustic echo canceler based on a U-Net convolutional neural network for single-talk and double-talk scenarios. U-Net networks have previously been used in the audio processing area for source separation problems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 J. Silva-Rodríguez , M. F. Dolz , M. Ferrer , A. Castelló , V. Naranjo , G. Piñero

In this paper, we propose a residual echo suppression method using a UNet neural network that directly maps the outputs of a linear acoustic echo canceler to the desired signal in the spectral domain. This system embeds a design parameter…

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

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), noise suppression (NS) and dereverberation (DR) are an integral part of modern full-duplex communication systems. As the demand for teleconferencing systems increases, addressing these tasks is required for…

Although today's speech communication systems support various bandwidths from narrowband to super-wideband and beyond, state-of-the art DNN methods for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) are lacking modularity and bandwidth scalability. Our…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Ernst Seidel , Rasmus Kongsgaard Olsson , Karim Haddad , Zhengyang Li , Pejman Mowlaee , Tim Fingscheidt

The topic of deep acoustic echo control (DAEC) has seen many approaches with various model topologies in recent years. Convolutional recurrent networks (CRNs), consisting of a convolutional encoder and decoder encompassing a recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Ernst Seidel , Pejman Mowlaee , Tim Fingscheidt

The performance of speech enhancement algorithms in a multi-speaker scenario depends on correctly identifying the target speaker to be enhanced. Auditory attention decoding (AAD) methods allow to identify the target speaker which the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ali Aroudi , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Keisuke Kinoshita , Shoko Araki , Simon Doclo

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

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

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

This work presents a statistical analysis of a class of jointly optimized beamformer-assisted acoustic echo cancelers (AEC) with the beamformer (BF) implemented in the Generalized Sidelobe Canceler (GSC) form and using the least-mean square…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Marcos H. Maruo , José C. M. Bermudez , Leonardo S. Resende

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

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) aims to remove interference signals while leaving near-end speech least distorted. As the indistinguishable patterns between near-end speech and interference signals, near-end speech can't be separated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Chang Han , Xinmeng Xu , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang , Yajie Liu

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

The spatial covariance matrix has been considered to be significant for beamformers. Standing upon the intersection of traditional beamformers and deep neural networks, we propose a causal neural beamformer paradigm called Embedding and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li