Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Spectral estimation of room acoustic parameters
-
Application No.: US16084771Application Date: 2016-03-17
-
Publication No.: US10403300B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Tobias Wolff , Naveen Kumar Desiraju
- Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Burlington
- Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.
- International Application: PCT/US2016/022857 WO 20160317
- International Announcement: WO2017/160294 WO 20170921
- Main IPC: G10L21/0224
- IPC: G10L21/0224 ; G10L21/0208 ; G10L21/0216 ; H04R3/00 ; H04R5/027 ; H04R5/04 ; G01H7/00

Abstract:
A system and associated method for estimating one or more reverberation parameters includes an adaptive, parametric, linear prediction filter having one or more power spectral density (PSD) estimates of signals of one or more channels as inputs. The prediction filter estimates at least one parameter related to reverberation time, such as T60, and can further estimate an additional parameter, such as Direct-to-Reverberant Ratio (DRR). The prediction filter may be adapted during a period of reverberation by minimizing a cost function. Adaptation can include using a gradient descent approach, which can operate according to a step size provided by an adaptation controller configured to determine the period of reverberation. One or more microphones can provide the signals. The reverberation parameters estimated can be applied to a reverberation suppressor, with an estimator that does not require a training phase and without relying on assumptions of the user's position relative to the microphones.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190080709A1 Spectral Estimation Of Room Acoustic Parameters Public/Granted day:2019-03-14
Information query