Method and apparatus for reducing noise pumping due to noise suppression and echo control interaction

摘要

An input signal is processed through noise suppression (NS) and echo control (EC) via a multipath model that reduces noise pumping effects while maintaining EC performance. A copy of a “noisy” input signal is sent to an EC component before the noisy signal is sent to a NS component, which processes the signal first, when there is a consistent noise level for estimation. The copy of the pre-processing noisy signal is sent to the EC component along with a “clean” or “noise-suppressed” signal output from the NS component. The EC component analyzes the noisy signal as if the EC was the first component in the signal chain to determine what actions to take. The EC component then applies these actions to the clean signal received from the NS component.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a noise suppression component, a noisy signal input from an audio capture device; generating, by the noise suppression component, a noise-suppressed signal from the noisy input signal in the frequency domain; determining, by an echo control component, echo suppression based on the noisy input signal from the audio capture device in the frequency domain; providing the noise-suppressed signal from the noise suppression component to the echo control component; and applying, by the echo control component, the determined echo suppression to the noise-suppressed signal in the frequency domain.