Two-Step Band-Split Neural Network Approach for Full-Band Residual Echo Suppression

Zihan Zhang, Shimin Zhang, Mingshuai Liu, Yanhong Leng, Zhe Han, Li Chen, Lei Xie

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Abstract

This paper describes a Two-step Band-split Neural Network (TBNN) approach for full-band acoustic echo cancellation. Specifically, after linear filtering, we split the full-band signal into wideband (16KHz) and high-band (16-48KHz) for residual echo removal with lower modeling difficulty. The wide-band signal is processed by an updated gated convolutional recurrent network (GCRN) with U2 encoder while the high-band signal is processed by a high-band post-filter net with lower complexity. Our approach submitted to ICASSP 2023 AEC Challenge has achieved an overall mean opinion score (MOS) of 4.344 and a word accuracy (WAcc) ratio of 0.795, leading to the 2nd (tied) in the ranking of the non-personalized track.

Keywords

  • Acoustic echo cancellation
  • band-split
  • noise suppression
  • two-step network

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