Sound Zones with a Cost Function based on Human Hearing

With the aid of an array of loudspeakers, sound zone algorithms seek to reproduce multiple distinct zones of audio inside an enclosure. Typical approaches determine the loudspeaker inputs by optimizing over a cost function that models the sound pressure inside the enclosure. However, recent methods propose cost functions that include a...

On speech enhancement in very low SNRs for smart speakers

Human interaction with a smart speaker involves often distant automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, ASR is a rather cumbersome task at significantly high levels of noise. Most of commercial smart speakers in order to achieve high ASR accuracy they tend to reduce the playback signal once the preset keyword is detected. In an effort to...