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An acoustic echo canceller optimized for hands-free speech telecommunication in large vehicle cabins
Umea Univ, Sweden; Volvo Technol, Sweden.
Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, The Division of Statistics and Machine Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.
Umea Univ, Sweden.
Umea Univ, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, ISSN 1687-4714, E-ISSN 1687-4722, Vol. 2023, no 1, article id 39Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Acoustic echo cancelation (AEC) is a system identification problem that has been addressed by various techniques and most commonly by normalized least mean square (NLMS) adaptive algorithms. However, performing a successful AEC in large commercial vehicles has proved complicated due to the size and challenging variations in the acoustic characteristics of their cabins. Here, we present a wideband fully linear time domain NLMS algorithm for AEC that is enhanced by a statistical double-talk detector (DTD) and a voice activity detector (VAD). The proposed solution was tested in four main Volvo truck models, with various cabin geometries, using standard Swedish hearing-in-noise (HINT) sentences in the presence and absence of engine noise. The results show that the proposed solution achieves a high echo return loss enhancement (ERLE) of at least 25 dB with a fast convergence time, fulfilling ITU G.168 requirements. The presented solution was particularly developed to provide a practical compromise between accuracy and computational cost to allow its real-time implementation on commercial digital signal processors (DSPs). A real-time implementation of the solution was coded in C on an ARM Cortex M-7 DSP. The algorithmic latency was measured at less than 26 ms for processing each 50-ms buffer indicating the computational feasibility of the proposed solution for real-time implementation on common DSPs and embedded systems with limited computational and memory resources. MATLAB source codes and related audio files are made available online for reference and further development.

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SPRINGER , 2023. Vol. 2023, no 1, article id 39
Keywords [en]
Speech signal enhancement; Automotive speech processing; Acoustic echo cancelation; Adaptive filters; NLMS; Keyword spotting; Hands-free telephony; Automotive voice assistant
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Signal Processing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198823DOI: 10.1186/s13636-023-00305-7ISI: 001082528400001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-198823DiVA, id: diva2:1808568
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Funding Agencies|Umea University; Volvo Group Truck Technology (VGTT ), Goteborg, Sweden

Available from: 2023-10-31 Created: 2023-10-31 Last updated: 2023-10-31

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