Audio device with distractor suppression

An audio device, comprising:

• multiple microphones that generate multiple audio signals;
• and
• an audio module coupled to the multiple microphones, comprising:
• at least one processor;
• at least one storage media including instructions operable to be executed by the at least one processor to perform a set of operations comprising:
• producing multiple instantaneous relative transfer functions (IRTFs) using a first known adaptive algorithm according to multiple mic spectral representations for multiple first sample values in current frames of the multiple audio signals;
• and
• performing distractor suppression over the multiple mic spectral representations and the multiple IRTFs using an end-to-end neural network to generate a compensation mask;
• and
• a post-processing circuit that generates an audio output signal according to the compensation mask;
• wherein each IRTF represents a difference in sound propagation between each predefined microphone and a reference microphone of the multiple microphones relative to at least one sound source;
• and
• wherein each predefined microphone is different from the reference microphone.