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In this paper, an adaptive framework for audio retrieval in live teleconferencing environments with multiple participants is proposed. The framework uses a non reference anchor array (NRA) to capture the interfering speech sources, in addition to the primary array that captures the speech source of interest (SOI). A linearly constrained-minimum variance (LC-MV) beamformer is used herein such that the signal coming from the look direction is preserved while interferences coming from the non look direction are nulled. Additionally, the reverberant component of the speech acquired by this framework is removed by a novel method that uses the linear prediction (LP) residual cepstrum. This method does not require the computation of the acoustic impulse response (AIR) of the teleconferencing room and hence is computationally efficient. The NRA framework is therefore able to remove correlated noise coming from the direction of the SOI and also dereverberating the noise free signal. The performance of the proposed framework is evaluated by conducting experiments on clean speech acquisition from distant microphone arrays. Experiments on distant speech recognition are also conducted using the TIMIT and MONC databases. Experimental results obtained from the proposed framework indicate a reasonable improvement over correlation, subspace and standard minimum variance beamforming methods. The application of the framework in audio retrieval in a live teleconferencing environment with multiple participants is also discussed.
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This work was supported in part by the DeITY, Goverment of India and in part by the BSNL Telecom Center of Excellence, IIT Kanpur
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Nathwani, K., Shukla, A., Khunteta, S. et al. An Adaptive Non Reference Anchor Array Framework for Audio Retrieval in Teleconferencing Environment. J Sign Process Syst 74, 91–102 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-013-0786-7
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