Acoustic echo cancellation system and associated method

Abstract

The acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) system includes a loudspeaker interface coupled to a loudspeaker, a microphone interface coupled to a microphone, and a processor executing a model. The model predicts and generates a spectral magnitude mask (SMM) through a neural network according to a first microphone signal output by the loudspeaker and a second microphone signal output by the microphone, wherein a noisy speech signal is a sum of a clean speech signal and a noise signal; the SMM is a ratio of a spectral magnitude of an estimated speech signal and a spectral magnitude of the noisy speech signal; a true mask is a ratio of a spectral magnitude of the clean speech signal and the spectral magnitude of the noisy speech signal; and the model applies a power function to a loss function of the model according to the true mask and a magnitude of the true mask.