Adaptive beam cancellation
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsIan Ernan Liu, Robert Ayrapetian, Pradeep Kumar Govindaraju, Madhuri Saraf, Carlo Murgia
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AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsIan Ernan Liu, Robert Ayrapetian, Pradeep Kumar Govindaraju, Madhuri Saraf, Carlo Murgia
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A system that improves beam cancellation by refining reference beam selection and dynamically controlling an adaptation speed of adaptive filters. For example, a device may control the adaptation speed by dynamically determining a variable step-size parameter based on a relative strength of a microphone signal and/or a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) value associated with an individual beam. The device may compare current energy levels of the microphone signal to a range of energy levels to determine a microphone step-size value, track a minimum noise floor to determine an SNR step-size value, and determine the variable step-size parameter using a sigmoid curve. Additionally or alternatively, the device can use a hybrid approach to select reference beams and can perform neighbor exclusion to further protect speech. For example, the device may exclude reference beams that are adjacent to a target beam to prevent the speech from being represented in the reference beams.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
A system comprising:
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