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Double Talk Detection before the Convergence of Echo Canceller

반향제거기의 수렴전 동시통화검출

  • Yoo, Jae-Ha (Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Hankyong National University) ;
  • Kim, Soo-Chan (Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Hankyong National University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Yon (Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Hankyong National University)
  • 유재하 (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과/IT융합연구소) ;
  • 김수찬 (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과/IT융합연구소) ;
  • 김동연 (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과/IT융합연구소)
  • Received : 2013.09.25
  • Accepted : 2013.10.11
  • Published : 2013.10.31

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a performance improvement method of the double talk detector which can operate before the echo canceller converges. Microphone input signal is filtered by the linear prediction filter and this filtered signal is used for detection. The coefficients of the linear prediction filter are given by the far-end talker signal. During single talk, filtered signal has low power since the characteristics of the echo signal is similar with those of the far-end talker signal. But, during double talk, the filtered signal does not have low power because the signal of different characteristics is included in the microphone signal. Double talk is detected by this difference. Simulations using real speech signals verified that the proposed method outperformed the conventional methods.

본 논문에서는 반향제거기가 수렴하기 전에 동작할 수 있는 동시통화검출기의 성능 향상에 대한 방법을 제안하였다. 마이크로폰에 입력된 신호를 선형예측필터에 통과시키고, 이 필터링 된 신호를 사용하여 검출을 수행하게 된다. 선형예측필터 계수는 원단화자신호의 음성으로부터 얻어진다. 단일통화 시에는 반향신호가 원단화자의 신호와 유사한 음성특성을 가지므로 필터링 된 신호가 작은 값을 갖게 된다. 그러나 동시통화가 발생한 경우에는 마이크로폰 신호에 다른 특성을 갖는 신호가 포함되어 있어서 파워가 줄어들지 않게 된다. 이를 사용하여 동시통화를 검출하게 된다. 음성신호를 사용한 모의 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 동시통화를 빠르게 검출함으로서 성능이 우수함을 확인할 수 있었다.

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