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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

In full-duplex speech interaction systems, effective Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is crucial for recovering echo-contaminated speech. This paper presents a neural network-based AEC solution to address challenges in mobile scenarios with…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yiheng Jiang , Tian Biao

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…

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

Echo path delay (or ref-delay) estimation is a big challenge in acoustic echo cancellation. Different devices may introduce various ref-delay in practice. Ref-delay inconsistency slows down the convergence of adaptive filters, and also…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Yi Zhang , Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yongtao Sha , Hui Song

We introduce a novel method for controlling the functionality of a hands-free speech communication device which comprises a model-based acoustic echo canceller (AEC), minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer (BF) and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Thomas Haubner , Walter Kellermann

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) algorithms have a long-term steady role in signal processing, with approaches improving the performance of applications such as automotive hands-free systems, smart home and loudspeaker devices, or web…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Jan Franzen , Ernst Seidel , Tim Fingscheidt

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 describes aecX team's entry to the ICASSP 2023 acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) challenge. Our system consists of an adaptive filter and a proposed full-band Taylor-style acoustic echo cancellation neural network (TaylorAECNet)…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Weiming Xu , Zhihao Guo

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

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

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Zihan Zhang , Shimin Zhang , Mingshuai Liu , Yanhong Leng , Zhe Han , Li Chen , Lei Xie

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

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is designed to remove echoes, reverberation, and unwanted added sounds from the microphone signal while maintaining the quality of the near-end speaker's speech. This paper proposes adaptive speech quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Bozhong Liu , Xiaoxi Yu , Hantao Huang

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

The front-end module in multi-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems mainly use microphone array techniques to produce enhanced signals in noisy conditions with reverberation and echos. Recently, neural network (NN) based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yuxiang Kong , Jian Wu , Quandong Wang , Peng Gao , Weiji Zhuang , Yujun Wang , 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

Compensation for channel mismatch and noise interference is essential for robust automatic speech recognition. Enhanced speech has been introduced into the multi-condition training of acoustic models to improve their generalization ability.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yao-Fei Cheng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Distortion resulting from acoustic echo suppression (AES) is a common issue in full-duplex communication. To address the distortion problem, a multi-frame minimum variance distortionless response (MFMVDR) filtering technique is proposed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Yuefeng Tsai , Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian Bai

In many speech recording applications, noise and acoustic echo corrupt the desired speech. Consequently, combined noise reduction (NR) and acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is required. Generally, a cascade approach is followed, i.e., the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Arnout Roebben , Toon van Waterschoot , Jan Wouters , Marc Moonen