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This paper proposes a joint acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and speech dereverberation (DR) algorithm in the short-time Fourier transform domain. The reverberant microphone signals are described using an auto-regressive (AR) model. The AR…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Ziteng Wang , Yueyue Na , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu

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

In hands-free communication system, the coupling between loudspeaker and microphone generates echo signal, which can severely influence the quality of communication. Meanwhile, various types of noise in communication environments further…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Linjuan Cheng , Chengshi Zheng , Andong Li , Yuquan Wu , Renhua Peng , Xiaodong Li

The robustness of the Kalman filter to double talk and its rapid convergence make it a popular approach for addressing acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) challenges. However, the inability to model nonlinearity and the need to tune control…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Meng Yu , Hao Zhang , Dong Yu , DeLiang Wang

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

We describe a joint acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and blind source extraction (BSE) approach for multi-microphone acoustic frontends. The proposed algorithm blindly estimates AEC and beamforming filters by maximizing the statistical…

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

In recent years, the introduction of neural networks (NNs) into the field of speech enhancement has brought significant improvements. However, many of the proposed methods are quite demanding in terms of computational complexity and memory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Ernst Seidel , Pejman Mowlaee , Tim Fingscheidt

This paper introduces the NWPU Team's entry to the ICASSP 2022 AEC Challenge. We take a hybrid approach that cascades a linear AEC with a neural post-filter. The former is used to deal with the linear echo components while the latter…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Shimin Zhang , Ziteng Wang , Jiayao Sun , Yihui Fu , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu , Lei Xie

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

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

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

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…

We propose a novel neural network-based end-to-end acoustic echo cancellation (E2E-AEC) method capable of streaming inference, which operates effectively without reliance on traditional linear AEC (LAEC) techniques and time delay…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yiheng Jiang , Biao Tian , Haoxu Wang , Shengkui Zhao , Bin Ma , Daren Chen , Xiangang Li

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

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

With recent research advances, deep learning models have become an attractive choice for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in real-time teleconferencing applications. Since acoustic echo is one of the major sources of poor audio quality, a…

Continuous speech separation (CSS) aims to separate overlapping voices from a continuous influx of conversational audio containing an unknown number of utterances spoken by an unknown number of speakers. A common application scenario is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Zhuohuang Zhang , Takuya Yoshioka , Naoyuki Kanda , Zhuo Chen , Xiaofei Wang , Dongmei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez

This paper describes multichannel speech enhancement for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy environments. Recently, the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming has widely been used because it works…

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

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