Optimal distributed minimum-variance beamforming approaches for speech enhancement in wireless acoustic sensor networks

S Markovich-Golan, A Bertrand, M Moonen, S Gannot - Signal Processing, 2015 - Elsevier
In multiple speaker scenarios, the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV)
beamformer is a popular microphone array-based speech enhancement technique, as it …

Acoustic echo control

G Enzner, H Buchner, A Favrot, F Kuech - Academic press library in signal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Modern systems for acoustic man-machine communication, such as teleconferencing
equipment or speech dialog systems, will have to provide hands-free voice interfaces with …

Blind alignment of asynchronously recorded signals for distributed microphone array

N Ono, H Kohno, N Ito… - 2009 IEEE Workshop on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, aiming to utilize independent recording devices as a distributed microphone
array, we present a novel method for alignment of recorded signals with localizing …

[HTML][HTML] Blind compensation of interchannel sampling frequency mismatch for ad hoc microphone array based on maximum likelihood estimation

S Miyabe, N Ono, S Makino - Signal Processing, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel method for the blind compensation of drift for the
asynchronous recording of an ad hoc microphone array. Digital signals simultaneously …

Correlation maximization-based sampling rate offset estimation for distributed microphone arrays

L Wang, S Doclo - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the sampling rate mismatch problem in distributed microphone
arrays and propose a correlation maximization algorithm to blindly estimate the sampling …

Double-cross-correlation processing for blind sampling-rate and time-offset estimation

A Chinaev, P Thüne, G Enzner - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coherent processing of signals captured by a wireless acoustic sensor network (WASN)
requires an estimation of unknown parameters such as the sampling-rate and sampling-time …

Blind compensation of inter-channel sampling frequency mismatch with maximum likelihood estimation in STFT domain

S Miyabe, N Ono, S Makino - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel blind compensation of sampling frequency mismatch for
asynchronous microphone array. Digital signals simultaneously observed by different …

Asynchronous microphone array calibration using hybrid TDOA information

C Zhang, J Wang, H Kong - 2024 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Asynchronous microphone array calibration is a prerequisite for many audition robot
applications. A popular solution to the above calibration problem is the batch form of …

Voice assistants in private households: a conceptual framework for future research in an interdisciplinary field

B Minder, P Wolf, M Baldauf, S Verma - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
The present study identifies, organizes, and structures the available scientific knowledge on
the recent use and the prospects of Voice Assistants (VA) in private households. The …

Amplitude-based speech enhancement with nonnegative matrix factorization for asynchronous distributed recording

H Chiba, N Ono, S Miyabe, Y Takahashi… - … on Acoustic Signal …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate amplitude-based speech enhancement for asynchronous
distributed recording. In an ad-hoc microphone array context, it is supposed that different …