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
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Lab
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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.
AI classification
Ownership
NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
assignment · 267960143
U-MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
assignment · 442030481
Assignors
BAI, MINGSIAN R., CHEN, CHUN-HUNG
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