MICROPHONE ARRAY STRUCTURE ABLE TO REDUCE NOISE AND IMPROVE SPEECH QUALITY AND METHOD THEREOF

Patent №

US 8,908,883

Granted

2014-12-09

Filed 2011

Owner

NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

vision · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13210620

The present invention discloses a microphone array structure able to reduce noise and improve speech quality and a method thereof. The method of the present invention comprises steps: using at least two microphone to receive at least two microphone signals each containing a noise signal and a speech signal; using FFT modules to transform the microphone signals into frequency-domain signals; calculating an included angle between a speech signal and a noise signal of the microphone signal, and selecting a phase difference estimation algorithm, a noise reduction algorithm or both to reduce noise according to the included angle; if the phase difference estimation algorithm is used, calculating phase difference of the microphone signals to obtain a time-space domain mask signal; and multiplying the mask signal and the average of the microphone signals to obtain the speech signals of the microphone signals. Thereby is eliminated noise and improve speech quality.

VisionSpeechH04R 1/1083H04R 3/005H04R 2430/20

AI classification

Speech1.00
Vision0.74
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY

assignment · 267960143

U-MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

assignment · 442030481

Assignors

BAI, MINGSIAN R., CHEN, CHUN-HUNG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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