2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDSPE-52.3
Paper Title Acoustic echo cancellation with the dual-signal transformation LSTM network
Authors Nils L. Westhausen, Bernd T. Meyer, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany
SessionSPE-52: Speech Enhancement 8: Echo Cancellation and Other Tasks
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Friday, 11 June, 13:00 - 13:45
Presentation Time:Friday, 11 June, 13:00 - 13:45
Presentation Poster
Topic Speech Processing: [SPE-ENHA] Speech Enhancement and Separation
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Abstract 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 approach, which enables robust information processing in the time-frequency and in the time domain, which also includes phase information. The model is only trained on 60h of real and synthetic echo scenarios. The training setup includes multi-lingual speech, data augmentation, additional noise and reverberation to create a model that should generalize well to a large variety of real-world conditions. The DTLN approach produces state-of-the-art performance on clean and noisy echo conditions reducing acoustic echo and additional noise robustly. The method outperforms the AEC-Challenge baseline by 0.30 in terms of Mean Opinion Score (MOS).