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Acoustical feedback is present whenever a loudspeaker signal gets redirected to a microphone that feeds its input signal directly or indirectly back into the loudspeaker. If the gain around such a closed feedback loop is close to or higher than unity, unpleasant acoustical artifacts will typically occur and will nearly always lead to a periodic howling sound. Most readers are probably familiar with this noise, which can for example set in when a microphone is accidentally pointed at a speaker. This research project aims to suppress these unwanted effects of acoustical feedback by the insertion of a modified speech coder and decoder into the signal path of the feedback loop. It is demonstrated that the Speex open-source speech codec can be successfully tweaked to increase the maximum stable feedback gain by as much as 3 dB to 7 dB through adjustment of the codec’s quality parameter. This enhancement outperforms the simple introduction of shaped noise into the feedback loop and is compared with the performance of a frequency shifter. Tests are conducted using an automated experimental framework for determining the maximum stable gain of a public address system.
Author (s): Ditter, David; Berdahl, Edgar
Affiliation:
Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Jünger Audio GmbH, Berlin, Germany; Louisiana State University
(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 142
Paper Number:9800
Publication Date:
2017-05-06
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Session subject:
Recording and Live Sound
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Ditter, David; Berdahl, Edgar; 2017; Using a Speech Codec to Suppress Howling in Public Address Systems [PDF]; Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Jünger Audio GmbH, Berlin, Germany; Louisiana State University; Paper 9800; Available from: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18674
Ditter, David; Berdahl, Edgar; Using a Speech Codec to Suppress Howling in Public Address Systems [PDF]; Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Jünger Audio GmbH, Berlin, Germany; Louisiana State University; Paper 9800; 2017 Available: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18674