Target voice extraction method, apparatus and program product
An apparatus, program product and method is provided for separating a target voice from a plurality of other voices having different directions of arrival. The method comprises the steps of disposing a first and a second voice input device at a predetermined distance from one another and upon receipt of voice signals at said devices calculating discrete Fourier transforms for the signals and calculating a CSP (cross-power spectrum phase) coefficient by superpositioning multiple frequency-bin components based on correlation of the two spectra signals received and then calculating a weighted CSP coefficient from said two discrete Fourier-transformed speech signals. A target voice is separated when received by said devices from other voice signals in a spectrum by using the calculated weighted CSP coefficient.
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Masafumi Takashi Osamu
Nishimura Fukuda Ichikawa