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Microphone Array Directivity Improvement in Low-Frequency Band for Speech Processing

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Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2016)

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This paper presents a new method of improving microphone array directivity in the low-frequency band. The method is based on a sub-band processing technique. We also evaluate the parameters and characteristics of the method and consider some of its practical implementations.

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Acknowledgement

This work was financially supported by the Government of the Russian Federation, Grant 074-U01.

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  1. Speech Technology Center, Krasutskogo-4, St. Petersburg, 196084, Russia

    Mikhail Stolbov

  2. ITMO University, 49 Kronverkskiy pr., St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia

    Mikhail Stolbov & Sergei Aleinik

  3. Alango Technologies Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia

    Sergei Aleinik

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  1. Mikhail Stolbov
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  1. SPIIRAS , Saint-Petersburg, Russia

    Andrey Ronzhin

  2. Moscow State Linguistic University , Moscow, Russia

    Rodmonga Potapova

  3. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    Géza Németh

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Stolbov, M., Aleinik, S. (2016). Microphone Array Directivity Improvement in Low-Frequency Band for Speech Processing. In: Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R., Németh, G. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43958-7_58

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