Echo cancellation has been most widely studied for hands-free telephony and for cancelling line echos in telephone central offices. The problem of echo cancelling in speech dialog systems is similar, however it has some specific requirements. In this contribution, a subband echo cancellation structure is proposed which can be integrated in the feature extraction part of a recognizer. A NLMS gradient-based adaptation is performed in frequency subbands that can either be derived directly from FFT analysis of input speech signal, or by using a proposed reduced-subband approach where the number of subbands is reduced in order to lessen the aliasing effect of the FFT. A double-talk detector is proposed based on the estimated error function for decision on stopping the adaptation. Finally, a new approach of combining echo cancellation and noise reduction is proposed.
Cite as: Miksic, A., Horvat, B. (1997) Subband echo cancellation in automatic speech dialog systems. Proc. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997), 2579-2582, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1997-401
@inproceedings{miksic97_eurospeech,
author={Andrej Miksic and Bogomir Horvat},
title={{Subband echo cancellation in automatic speech dialog systems}},
year=1997,
booktitle={Proc. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997)},
pages={2579--2582},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1997-401}
}