摘要:
An echo cancellation apparatus cancels an echo signal included in a second speech signal including the echo signal of a first speech signal, and includes: a first echo replica generating unit generating a first echo replica by processing the first speech signal through a filter whose characteristic is equalized with a acoustic transfer function of amplified sound; a first echo cancelling unit generating and providing a first echo-cancelled signal by subtracting from the second speech signal the first echo replica generated by the first echo replica generating unit; and a filter updating unit generating a nonlinear-converted echo-cancelled signal by performing nonlinear conversion on the first echo-cancelled signal generated by the first echo cancelling unit, and updating the filter characteristic thereby equalizing the filter characteristic with the acoustic transfer function, using the nonlinear-converted echo-cancelled signal, the first speech signal, and a norm of the first speech signal.
摘要:
A multichannel echo canceller according to the present invention includes an echo cancellation section which receives loudspeaker input signals sp1, sp2 including a second acoustic signal to be respectively inputted to a plurality of loudspeakers 10, 20 provided in a first location and detection signals m1, m2 detected by a plurality of microphones 11, 21 provided in the first location; separates a first acoustic signal and a second acoustic signal, which are included in the detection signals m1, m2, by performing signal processing based on an independent component analysis; cancels as an echo the second acoustic signal, which is included in the detection signals m1, m2, by outputting only the separated first acoustic signal to a plurality of loudspeakers 30, 40 provided in a second location.
摘要:
A multichannel echo canceller according to the present invention includes an echo cancellation section which receives loudspeaker input signals sp1, sp2 including a second acoustic signal to be respectively inputted to a plurality of loudspeakers 10, 20 provided in a first location and detection signals m1, m2 detected by a plurality of microphones 11, 21 provided in the first location; separates a first acoustic signal and a second acoustic signal, which are included in the detection signals m1, m2, by performing signal processing based on an independent component analysis; cancels as an echo the second acoustic signal, which is included in the detection signals m1, m2, by outputting only the separated first acoustic signal to a plurality of loudspeakers 30, 40 provided in a second location.
摘要:
An array microphone is a directional microphone having an improved directional characteric in which both the sensitivity and the sound pressure frequency response are uniform within the recording area and more particularly, the quality and level of sound remain unchanged. The array microphone includes a microphone array including a plurality of microphone units, and a two-dimensional filter for filtering an output of the microphone array in the dimensions of both time and space. When the two-dimensional filter is a digital filter and varied in its two-dimensional filter coefficient and sampling frequency, the array microphone serves as a variable directional microphone whose directional characteristic can be varied with the sound quality and level remaining unchanged throughout the recording area.
摘要:
A stereo ultradirectional microphone apparatus for detecting a sound to produce stereo sound signals, comprises: first and second ultradirectional microphones arranged side by side with a given distance in parallel for converting a sound into first and second sound signals respectively, first and second delays for delaying an output of the first and second microphones by a delay time .tau. respectively, and first and second subtractors for subtracting for subtraction between the first sound signal and an output of the second delay and subtracting for subtraction between the second sound signal and an output of the first delay. The delay time .tau. corresponds to a difference between the timings of a sound from a sound source in a direction making a clockwise angel .theta. from the front where a dead angel should be made. The subtraction provides the dead angle. Similarly, a dead angle on the side is also made to obtain a stereo characteristic. The directivity in the frequency characteristic of microphone is equalized to cancel the sensitivity in the dead angle. A stereo apparatus for forming the dead angles with two set of two filters having respective transfer characteristics determined by measurement and an adder is also disclosed.
摘要:
In an echo canceller, a first adaptive filter (1) estimates an impulse response of an echo path between reception and transmission side by an NLMS algorithm to synthesize a pseud echo, while a second adaptive filter (3) determines whether there is an echo path change or a double talk. A voice detector (8) detects a short time power of the received input signal (x) to determine whether far-end speech is present or absent. The voice detector controls the second adaptive filter (3) to execute adaptation of the second adaptive filter for renewal of an impulse response of an echo path when far-end speech is present and otherwise to suspend the adaptation of the second adaptive filter when far-end speech is absent, while a double talk detector (9) controls the first adaptive filter to execute or suspend adaptation of the first adaptive filter according to the determination results of the voice detector.
摘要:
The present invention provides a hearing aid capable of detecting contact vibration noise from a collected sound signal. A hearing aid (100) is provided with two microphones (110-1, 110-2), a vibration component extracting unit (120) which extracts from collected sound signals respectively obtained by the two microphones (110-1, 110-2) an uncorrelated component between two collected sound signals as a vibration component for each frequency band, a vibration noise identifying unit (130) which determines whether or not a contact noise occurs based on the vibration component for each frequency band extracted by the vibration component extracting unit (120), an acoustic signal processing unit (140) which, when generating an acoustic signal by hearing aid processing of the two collected sound signals, processes the acoustic signal depending on the presence or absence of the occurrence of the contact vibration noise, and a receiver (150) which converts the acoustic signal to sound.
摘要:
A noise extraction device of the present invention includes: first and second microphone units (11 and 12) each picking up a sound; a directivity synthesis unit which performs a directivity synthesis on output signals respectively received from the first and second microphone units (11 and 12) and generates two directionally synthesized signals which have: different sensitivities to noise; the same directional pattern with respect to sound pressure; and the same effective acoustic center position; and an acoustic cancellation unit which cancels an acoustic component of one of the two directionally synthesized signals by subtracting the one of the two directionally synthesized signals from the other of the two directionally synthesized signal, so as to extract a noise component.
摘要:
A low-cost speech recognition apparatus for AV equipment capable of speech recognition with high accuracy while 2-channel sound is being produced from loudspeakers is achieved. A monaural conversion part converts 2-channel signals to be inputted to the loudspeakers into a monaural signal. A single echo canceller is provided with an output from a microphone and an output from the monaural conversion part (monaural signal). The echo canceller estimates an echo of multichannel sound based on the monaural signal, and then eliminates the echo sound from the microphone output. Thus, with only a single echo canceller, speech recognition can be carried out while 2-channel sound is being produced from the loudspeakers. Moreover, unlike the case where two echo cancellers are provided, the present invention can prevent the occurrence of mutual interference between the echo cancellers that leads to deterioration in speech recognition performance.
摘要:
A hearing aid capable of detecting contact vibration noise from a collected sound signal. The hearing aid is provided with two microphones, a vibration component extracting section that extracts from collected sound signals respectively obtained by the two microphones an uncorrelated component between two collected sound signals as a vibration component for each frequency band. Additionally, a vibration noise identifying section determines whether or not a contact noise occurs based on the vibration component for each frequency band extracted by the vibration component extracting section, an acoustic signal processing section, when generating an acoustic signal by hearing aid processing of the two collected sound signals, processes the acoustic signal depending on the presence or absence of the occurrence of the contact vibration noise, and a receiver converts the acoustic signal to sound.