Generalized Spherical Array Beamforming for Binaural Speech Reproduction

Authors:
Noam R. Shabtai;Boaz Rafaely
Affiliations:
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Venue:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP)
Year:
2014

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Abstract

Microphone arrays are used in speech signal processing applications such as teleconferencing and telepresence, in order to enhance a desired speech signal in the presence of speech signals from other speakers, reverberation and background noise. These arrays usually provide a single-channel output, so that no spatial information is available in the output signal. However, spatial information on the sound sources may increase the intelligibility of a speech signal perceived by a human listener. This work presents a mathematical framework for generalized spherical array beamforming that in addition to suppressing noise and reverberation, is aiming to preserve spatial information on the sources in the recording venue. The generalized beamforming, formulated in the spherical harmonics domain, is based on binaural sound reproduction where the head-related transfer functions are incorporated into a headphones presentation. The performance of the proposed generalized beamformer is compared to that of a single-channel output maximum-directivity beamformer. Listening tests with human subjects show that when the generalized beamformer is used the intelligibility is improved at low input SNRs.