Reproduction of independent narrowband soundfields in a multizone surround system and its extension to speech signal sources

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Conference Proceeding
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ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 2011, pp. 461 - 464
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2011-08-18
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While higher order ambisonic approaches can be used to generate multiple zone soundfields, this paper adopts a Least Squares matching approach which provides a more flexible formulation. The base approach, adopted from [1] computes speaker weights which allow for the placement of single sources in the soundfield. In this paper the approach is extended firstly to two multi-frequency sources and then to narrowband speech signals. The results for multi-frequency sources explore the zonal soundfield errors resulting from varied source positions. For speech signals, the approach provides a potential solution for multiple conversation reproduction in a multi user environment. The paper results indicate that the approach is feasible for zones which do not suffer occlusion effects from other zones. However, for more versatile multizone soundfield reproduction a 3D approach is recommended. © 2011 IEEE.
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