Adaptive microphone array employing calibration signals: an analytical evaluation

This paper gives an analytical description of an adaptive microphone array that facilitates a simple built-in calibration to the environment and instrumentation. This method, suggested for use in hands-free mobile telephones and speech recognition systems for cars, provides speech enhancement and acoustic echo-cancellation. The scheme offers several advantages, such as a simple calibration procedure, suppression of directional sources, versatile robust beamforming, and reduced target signal distortion. The analysis employs noncausal Wiener filters yielding compact and effective theoretical suppression limits.