An analysis of loudspeaker distortion in the context of acoustic echo cancellation
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Abstract
Acoustic echo is inherent in all hands-free communication systems and can corrupt the conversation between parties if it is not sufficiently suppressed.The conventional approach to removing echo is with a digital echo canceller (EC), which is typically implemented as a linear adaptive filter.A block diagram of a simplified echo cancellation system is shown in Figure 1.Here the reference signal, x(n), is the far-end signal that is played through the loudspeaker and the response signal, d(n), is the signal captured by the microphone.The microphone signal is comprised of the echo, y(n), local noise, q(n), and local talker, v(n), signals.The echo signal is formed from the direct loudspeaker to microphone signal along with the reflections from the walls and objects within the acoustic environment.The EC determines an approximation of the loudspeaker-enclosure-microphone-system (LEMS) transfer function via an adaptive filtering algorithm, and produces an echo signal estimate, y(n), that is subtracted from d(n) to cancel the unwanted y(n).The resulting error signal, e(n), is then transmitted back to the far-end of the communication system.It should be noted that the EC is only adapted under quiet local talker conditions (i.e.v(n)=0).For practical acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), a doubletalk detector is used to determine if a local talker is active or not and controls adaptation of the ECaccordinglyn i__ _N oise SourcesF igure 1 -Simplified echo cancellation system.
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