Method of providing interactive assistant for each seat in vehicle

A vehicle comprising:

• a microphone array configured to be beamformed to a plurality of regions preset in the vehicle;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• generate at least one cluster based on acoustic characteristics of a plurality of voice signals received from the microphone array,
• select a cluster associated with the received voice signal among the plurality of voice signals in a specific direction,
• extract information from the received voice signal included in the selected cluster, and generate a control signal corresponding to the extracted information.

A machine-readable non-transitory medium having stored thereon machine-executable instructions, the instructions comprising:

• receiving a voice signal through a microphone array for a plurality of regions in a vehicle;
• generating at least one cluster based on acoustic characteristics of a plurality of voice signals;
• selecting a cluster associated with the received voice signal among the plurality of voice signals in a specific direction, wherein the cluster is selected among the at least one cluster, and
• extracting information from the received voice signal included in the selected cluster;
• and
• generating a control signal corresponding to the extracted information.