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Multimicrophone Speech Dereverberation: Experimental Validation

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing20072007:051831

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/51831

©  K. Eneman and M. Moonen. 2007

Received: 6 September 2006

Accepted: 10 April 2007

Published: 2 May 2007

Abstract

Dereverberation is required in various speech processing applications such as handsfree telephony and voice-controlled systems, especially when signals are applied that are recorded in a moderately or highly reverberant environment. In this paper, we compare a number of classical and more recently developed multimicrophone dereverberation algorithms, and validate the different algorithmic settings by means of two performance indices and a speech recognition system. It is found that some of the classical solutions obtain a moderate signal enhancement. More advanced subspace-based dereverberation techniques, on the other hand, fail to enhance the signals despite their high-computational load.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
ExpORL, Department of Neurosciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(2)
GroupT Leuven Engineering School
(3)
SCD, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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