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OMG!! I stopped in Tuesaday Morning to return something - I have been in there 3 times in less then a week (ugh!). I had looked at the hidden in the corner craft / quilting section already because someone here had mention the fabric she had purchased awhile ago from TM.
Across from the register the brand new sale items were prominently displayed~~and drumroll....quilting fabric! I bought a bunch! Is it Quilt shop quality? No, but it is Joanne's quality, some better - and in TM style -- cheap!
Same batik-like wannabe bundled in 2 yard packages for $3.99/pkg. I got 100 5"charms for $2.99! another - 24 charms for $3.99. The pricing did not make sense, but if you shop TM, you expect that.
This fabric will be good for trying out some specialty rulers or new techniques.
Go to Tuesday Morning if you get a chance.
I discovered Tuesday Morning from a previous post here. You should also check the housewares section because a friend of mine got a Rowenta Iron for 45.00. There are 2 locations in the Niagara Falls, NY area so if I have time I check both of them when I am there. DH and I are heading to upstate NY next week so I had better check for locations!
For those not familiar with Tuesday Morning, it is a place you "have to shop". Normally it is neat and clean, but the stock levels change drastically when they get trucks and when they have their sales. If you see something you even think you want, buy it or it will not be there tomorrow.
It is a wonderful place for gifts and one of a kind items. The housewares and cookware is always excellent.
Back to the bundles of fabric - by tomorrow, it will be gone at the store I was in. I needed to get a cart, and asked the lady who was selecting (gorgeous) lampshades on the same shelf, if she would guard my pile while I ran and got a cart -- she gave me hers - she understood!
Ooh, great haul Marsha!
I wish there was a decent TM near me, or even near other places I need to go, LOL. Alas, there isn't.
There was one near the needlework shop I worked for, but it was really ratty, dirty, and it went out of business after just a year or so. Totally mismanaged.
Marsha, that is a great find. I got a similar "bargain" at Big Lots today of all places! When I saw fat quarters for a dollar a piece, I just couldn't control myself! I know it's not quilt shop quality as well, but I'm still learning, so why waste expensive material... some of it looks pretty good... I bought like 23 dollars worth!
Bobby ~ I like your fabrics! The diagonal stripe would make a good looking binding! You can wash Fat Quarters. I swish them around in a big bowl of hot water with a drop of Dawn & a small piece of a Color Catcher. That way you see if they are going to bleed (put like colors together)and you get to wash out all the sizing and see how good or bad the fabric really is. I blot on a towel, then dry on high heat in the dryer altogether. You will have to starch & iron them before you begin your project (hmmmm, which iron to use?:)
Definitely a good purchase. You can practice with these and make some placemats and potholders and kitty quilts if the fabric turns out not to wash well.


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Letters found on Ben Moynihan's computer said "all women need to die" and he liked to smell the "flesh he had ripped out"
Sorin Georgian Salinievici, 24, wants £1,476 for his V-plates and says, "It could be a nice present on March 8th"
The actress, who plays innocent Anastasia Steele in the BDSM-inspired movie, has opened up about what her favourite sex scene was
Skint Seb Ciercies, 29, was shocked by the response, saying 'it doesn't do much for your self-esteem to be rejected by absolutely everybody in the world'
The 18-year-old was reunited with her absent father after more than a decade apart, and says the couple plan on having children together
It was the surprise win of the night and Gina was not surprisingly delighted
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The former MP, voted off the show on Saturday night, mocked yesterday: "Middle England outraged about sex? Oh goodness!"
The former Tory MP has been quite the over-sharer on the latest series of I'm a Celeb, but this latest story about her sex life may take the biscuit
The 44-year-old had sex with the girl when she was 16 at school and at his home during their illicit affair
Vice principal Stuart Kerner, has denied all the charges against him
The shocking test involves a medical practitioner carrying out a physical examination of a woman to see if she has had sex
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Sandy Nardo, 53, from Dublin, rates married men, threesomes and even her ex husband in a spree of random romps after lose her virginity aged 19 to an Italian musician
Findings in a study add suggest that the more notches men have on their bedpost could reduce their risk by a third
This year's token 'fun' act has told how he finally lost his virginity with a co-worker when he was a Pontins Bluecoat - but he almost blew it
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Sandy Nardo eventually tells This Morning her husband got 10 out of 10, although he was "mentally all wrong"
Harry's alter-ego is also glad that his first time was not under a bridge
These are some of the flood of figures being collected about our lives by the statisticians and pollsters trying to find out what the typical Brit is like
The young actresses show A LOT of flesh in the drama about two friends who make a pact to lose their virginity before college
Anne Lakey, 54, denies a string of sex offences allegedly committed in the 1980s
It's already filled with some of the sexiest housemates but what will happen if/when Big Brother opens the doors to more?
Unlucky Maria-Louise was never opposed to sex, blaming her domineering mother for the epic dry spell she experienced
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Stunning Elizabeth Raine, who claims to have never seen a naked man, has promised to get down and dirty in a 12-hour date with the highest bidder
Elizabeth Raine says the move will drum up even more interest in the money-to-deflower-me scheme where she promises a 12-hour date
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B. masoniana and B. soli-mutata growing?
townhouserOnt(z6aOnt)May 15, 2005
Any advice on specifics of growing these begonias? Or their requirements are the same as common for Rex Begonias?
mingtea(z9 Tucson)
personally, i think that soli-mutata is easier to grow than masoniana. masoniana dies back for me during the winter and is plagued by mildew problems then, whereas my soli-mutata grows all the time and i haven't had quite the same density of problems.
i think the key is proper control of humidity and moisture (which are not the same). i haven't quite got it down for masoniana, so i don't have a lot of good advice to offer, but i do know that those are the factors i see contributing to how good it looks.


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Its geographic diversity is one of the keys to efficient fulfillment, Ellin says. For instance, when Innotrac acquired Universal Distribution Services in Reno, the company was fulfilling Gateway Learning Corp.'s Hooked on Phonics products from its sole facility-in Reno. Yet 65% of customers were on the East Coast, Ellin says. With the acquisition, Innotrac was able to route the fulfillment order to the warehouse closest to the customer. That not only sped deliveries, but also reduced shipping costs, Ellin reports. Innotrac is seeking an acquisition in the Northeast, Ellin says, that would give it a facility close to a major population center. Innotrac ships about 5 million packages a year and handles 6.3 million calls at its call centers.
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Especially in today's environment, where retailers are trying to reduce costs wherever they can, store replenishment is important, Ellin says. "With the cost of store floor space being what it is, most retailers don't want to stock a lot of product for a long period," he says. "So we store it and ship it."
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You might want to either mail Doreen a link to your list, or else make a post on whatever thread this pertains too.
Thank you! Doreen and I contacted through email, this thread just used to make it easy for her to find my trade list and she found it.
Thank you for the good advice and I will do that next time.
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A microphone array having at least three microphones provides a captured signal. Spatial noise suppression estimates a desired signal from a captured signal using spatio-temporal distribution of the speech and the noise. In particular, spatial information indicative of at least two quantities of direction are used. A first quantity is based on a first combination of the signals from the at least three microphones, a second quantity is based on a second combination of the signals of the at least three microphones.
1. A method of reducing noise, the method comprising:
obtaining a captured signal with a microphone array, wherein the captured signal comprises a desired signal and noise, wherein the microphone array comprises at least three microphones, and wherein each microphone has a known position and a known directivity pattern;
determining spatial information based on phase differences of non-repetitive pairs of signals from the at least three microphones, wherein the spatial information is obtained from signals of at least two combinations of the at least three microphones, wherein the spatial information comprises an at least two-dimensional space, and wherein each physical point from a real space has a corresponding point in the at least two-dimensional space; and
computing an estimate of the desired signal based on an a priori spatial signal-to-noise ratio and an a posteriori spatial signal-to-noise ratio, wherein the a priori spatial signal-to-noise ratio and the a posteriori spatial signal-to-noise ratio are each based on the spatial information.
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if the presence of the desired signal is detected, calculating signal variance based on the captured signal and updating the stored information related to the captured signal variance; and
if the presence of the desired signal is not detected, calculating noise variance based on the captured signal and updating the stored information related to the noise signal variance.
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10. A noise reduction system for reducing noise in signals received from a microphone array having M microphones, where M is equal to three or more, the noise reduction system comprising:
an estimator module to receive the signals from the microphone array and process the signals to obtain M-1 quantities indicative of direction and based on different combinations of the signals of the M microphones; and
a spatial noise reduction module to receive the M-1 quantities and a captured signal from the microphone array based on frequency-domain decomposition, the spatial noise reduction module further configured to access stored values as a function of frequency and as a function of the M-1quantities and use at least some of the stored values to provide noise reduction on the captured signal.
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The discussion below is merely provided for general background information and is not intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.
Small computing devices such as personal digital assistants (PDA), devices and portable phones are used with ever increasing frequency by people in their day-to-day activities. With the increase in processing power now available for microprocessors used to run these devices, the functionality of these devices is increasing, and in some cases, merging. For instance, many portable phones now can be used to access and browse the Internet as well as can be used to store personal information such as addresses, phone numbers and the like. Likewise, PDAs and other forms of computing devices are being designed to function as a telephone.
In many instances, mobile phones, PDAs and the like are increasingly being used in situations that require hands-free communication, which generally places the microphone assembly in a less than optimal position when in use. For instance, the microphone assembly can be incorporated in the housing of the phone or PDA. However, if the user is operating the device in a hands-free mode, the device is usually spaced significantly away from and not directly in front of the user's mouth. Environment or ambient noise can be significant relative to the user's speech in this less than optimal position. Stated another way, a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is present for the captured speech. In view that mobile devices are commonly used in noisy environments, a low SNR is clearly undesirable.
To address this problem, at least in part, mobile phones and other devices can also be operated using a headset worn by the user. The headset includes a microphone and is connected either by wire or wirelessly to the device. For reasons of comfort, convenience and style, most users prefer headset designs that are compact and lightweight. Typically, these designs require the microphone to be located at some distance from the user's mouth, for example, alongside the user's head. This positioning again is suboptimal, and when compared to a well-placed, close-talking microphone, again yields a significant decrease in the SNR of the captured speech signal when compared to an optimal position.
One way to improve sound capture performance, with or without a headset, is to capture the speech signal using multiple microphones configured as an array. Microphone array processing improves the SNR by spatially filtering the sound field, in essence pointing the array toward the signal of interest, which improves overall directivity. However, noise reduction of the signal after the microphone array is still necessary and has had limited success with current signal processing algorithms.
This Summary and Abstract are provided to introduce some concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary and Abstract are not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor are they intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter. In addition, the description herein provided and the claimed subject matter should not be interpreted as being directed to addressing any of the short-comings discussed in the Background.
A microphone array having at least three microphones provides a captured signal. Spatial noise suppression estimates a desired signal such as clean speech from the captured signal using spatio-temporal distribution of the speech and the noise. In particular, spatial information indicative of two quantities of direction is used. A first quantity is based on a first combination of the signals from the at least three microphones, while a second quantity is based on a second combination of the signals of the at least three microphones. The desired signal is obtained based on stored signal and noise variance models in the multi-dimensional space defined by the first and second quantities.
In one embodiment, the signal and noise variance models are updated so as to adapt to changes in the noise present in the captured signals. A speech activity detector is used to identify frames having speech (or some other desired signal in the captured signal). The signal and noise variance models are updated with respect to the two dimensional space defined by the first and second quantities and based upon the presence of speech in the captured signal. In particular, the signal variance model is updated if speech is present in the captured signal, whereas the noise variance model is updated if speech is not present in the captured signal.
One concept herein described provides spatial noise suppression for a microphone array. Generally, spatial noise reduction is obtained using a suppression rule that exploits the spatio-temporal distribution of noise and speech with respect to multiple dimensions.
However, before describing further aspects, it may be useful to first describe exemplary computing devices or environments that can implement the description provided below.
In addition to the examples herein provided, other well known computing systems, environments, and/or configurations may be suitable for use with concepts herein described. Such systems include, but are not limited to, personal computers, server computers, hand-held or laptop devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, programmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include any of the above systems or devices, and the like.
The concepts herein described may be embodied in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Those skilled in the art can implement the description and/or figures herein as computer-executable instructions, which can be embodied on any form of computer readable media discussed below.
The concepts herein described may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both locale and remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.
With reference to
Computer 110 typically includes a variety of computer readable media. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by computer 110 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computer readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by computer 100. Communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier WAV or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term �modulated data signal� means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, FR, infrared and other wireless media. Combinations of any of the above should also be included within the scope of computer readable media.
The system memory 130 includes computer storage media in the form of volatile and/or nonvolatile memory such as read only memory (ROM) 131 and random access memory (RAM) 132. A basic input/output system 133 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within computer 110, such as during start-up, is typically stored in ROM 131. RAM 132 typically contains data and/or program modules that are immediately accessible to and/or presently being operated on by processing unit 120. By way o example, and not limitation,
The computer 110 may also include other removable/non-removable volatile/nonvolatile computer storage media. By way of example only,
The drives and their associated computer storage media discussed above and illustrated in
A user may enter commands and information into the computer 110 through input devices such as a keyboard 162, a microphone (herein an array) 163, and a pointing device 161, such as a mouse, trackball or touch pad. Other input devices (not shown) may include a joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 120 through a user input interface 160 that is coupled to the system bus, but may be connected by other interface and bus structures, such as a parallel port, game port or a universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 191 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus 121 via an interface, such as a video interface 190. In addition to the monitor, computers may also include other peripheral output devices such as speakers 197 and printer 196, which may be connected through an output peripheral interface 190.
The computer 110 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 180. The remote computer 180 may be a personal computer, a hand-held device, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the computer 110. The logical connections depicted in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 110 is connected to the LAN 171 through a network interface or adapter 170. When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 110 typically includes a modem 172 or other means for establishing communications over the WAN 173, such as the Internet. The modem 172, which may be internal or external, may be connected to the system bus 121 via the user-input interface 160, or other appropriate mechanism. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 110, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. By way of example, and not limitation,
It should be noted that the concepts herein described can be carried out on a computer system such as that described with respect to
Memory 204 is implemented as non-volatile electronic memory such as random access memory (RAM) with a battery back-up module (not shown) such that information stored in memory 204 is not lost when the general power to mobile device 200 is shut down. A portion of memory 204 is preferably allocated as addressable memory for program execution, while another portion of memory 204 is preferably used for storage, such as to simulate storage on a disk drive.
Memory 204 includes an operating system 212, application programs 214 as well as an object store 216. During operation, operating system 212 is preferably executed by processor 202 from memory 204. Operating system 212 is designed for mobile devices, and implements database features that can be utilized by applications 214 through a set of exposed application programming interfaces and methods. The objects in object store 216 are maintained by applications 214 and operating system 212, at least partially in response to calls to the exposed application programming interfaces and methods.
Communication interface 208 represents numerous devices and technologies that allow mobile device 200 to send and receive information. The devices include wired and wireless modems, satellite receivers and broadcast tuners to name a few. Mobile device 200 can also be directly connected to a computer to exchange data therewith. In such cases, communication interface 208 can be an infrared transceiver or a serial or parallel communication connection, all of which are capable of transmitting streaming information.
Input/output components 206 include a variety of input devices such as a touch-sensitive screen, buttons, rollers, as well as a variety of output devices including an audio generator, a vibrating device, and a display. The devices listed above are by way of example and need not all be present on mobile device 200.
However, in particular, device 200 includes an array microphone assembly 232, and in one embodiment, an optional analog-to-digital (A/D) converter 234, noise reduction modules described below and an optional recognition program stored in memory 204. By way of example, in response to audible information, instructions or commands from a user of device 200 generated speech signals are digitized by A/D converter 234. Noise reduction modules process the digitized speech signals to obtain an estimate of clean speech. A speech recognition program executed on device 200 or remotely can perform normalization and/or feature extraction functions on the clean speech signals to obtain intermediate speech recognition results. Using communication interface 208, speech data can be transmitted to a remote recognition server, not shown, wherein the results of which are provided back to device 200. Alternatively, recognition can be performed on device 200. Computer 110 processes speech input from microphone array 163 in a similar manner to that described above.
At this point it should be noted, that in one embodiment, the modules 304 (modules 306, 308, 310 and 312) can operate as a computer process entirely within a microphone array computing device, with the microphone array 302 receiving raw audio inputs from its various microphones, and then providing a processed audio output at 314. In this embodiment, the microphone array computing device includes an integral computer processor and support modules (similar to the computing elements of
When the microphone array 302 contains only some of the modules 304 or simply contains sufficient components to receive audio signals from the plurality of microphones forming the array and provide those signals to an external computing device which then performs the remaining processes, device drivers or device description files can be used. Device drivers or device description files contain data defining the operational characteristics of the microphone array, such as gain, sensitivity, array geometry, etc., and can be separately provided for the microphone array 302, so that the modules residing within the external computing device can be adjusted automatically for that specific microphone array.
In one embodiment, beamformer module 306 employs a time-invariant or fixed beamformer approach. In this manner, the desired beam is designed off-line, incorporated in beamformer module 306 and used to process signals in real time. However, although this time-invariant beamformer will be discussed below, it should be understood that this is but one exemplary embodiment and that other beamformer approaches can be used. In particular, the type of beamformer herein described should not be used to limit the scope or applicability of the spatial noise reduction module 310 described below.
Generally, the microphone array 302 can be considered as having M microphones with known positions. The microphones or sensors sample the sound field at locations pm=(xm,ym,zm) where m={1, . . . , M} is the microphone index. Each of the m sensors has a known directivity pattern Um(�,c), where f is the frequency band index and c represents the location of the sound source in either a radial or a rectangular coordinate system. The microphone directivity pattern is a complex function, providing the spatio-temporal transfer function of the channel. For an ideal omni-directional microphone, Um(�,c) is constant for all frequencies and source locations. A microphone array can have microphones of different types, so Um(�,c) can vary as a function of m.
As is known to those skilled in the art, a sound signal originating at a particular location, c, relative to a microphone array is affected by a number of factors. For example, given a sound signal, S(f), originating at point c, the signal actually captured by each microphone can be defined by Equation (1), as illustrated below:
The exemplary beamformer design described herein operates in a digital domain rather than directly on the analog signals received directly by the microphone array. Therefore, any audio signals captured by the microphone array are first digitized using conventional A/D conversion techniques. To avoid unnecessary aliasing effects, the audio signal is processed into frames longer than two times the period of the lowest frequency in a modulated complex lapped transform (MCLT) work band.
The beamformer herein described uses the modulated complex lapped transform (MCLT) in the beam design because of the advantages of the MCLT for integration with other audio processing components, such as audio compression modules. However, the techniques described herein are easily adaptable for use with other frequency-domain decompositions, such as the FFT or FFT-based filter banks, for example.
Assuming that the audio signal is processed in frames longer than twice the period of the lowest frequency in the frequency band of interest, the signals from all sensors are combined using a filter-and-sum beamformer as:
The matrix W is computed using the known methodology described by I. Tashev, H. Malvar, in �A New Beamformer Design Algorithm for Microphone Arrays,� published by ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, Mar. 2005, or U.S. Patent Application US 2005/0195988, published Sept. 8, 2005. In order to do so, the filter Fm(�,c) in Eq. (2) must be determined. Its value can be estimated theoretically using a physical model, or measured directly by using a close-talking microphone as reference.
However, it should be noted again the beamformer herein described is but an exemplary type, wherein other types can be employed.
In any beamformer design, there is a tradeoff between ambient noise reduction and the instrumental noise gain. In one embodiment, more significant ambient noise reduction was utilized at the expense of increased instrumental noise gain. However, this additional noise is stationary and it can easily be removed using stationary noise suppression module 308. Besides removing the stationary part of the ambient noise remaining after the time-invariant beamformer, the stationary noise suppression module 308 reduces the instrumental noise from the microphones and preamplifiers.
Stationary noise suppression modules are known to those skilled in the art. In one embodiment, stationary noise suppression module 308 can use a gain-based noise suppression algorithm with MMSE power estimation and a suppression rule similar to that described by P. J. Wolfe and S. J. Godsill, in �Simple alternatives to the Ephraim and Malah suppression rule for speech enhancement,� published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, pages 496-499, 2001. However, it should be understood that this is but one exemplary embodiment and that other stationary noise suppression modules can be used. In particular, the type of stationary noise suppression module herein described should not be used to limit the scope or applicability of the spatial noise reduction module 310 described below.
The output of the stationary noise suppression module 308 is then processed by spatial noise suppression module 310. Operation of module 310 can be explained as follows. For each frequency bin f the stationary noise suppressor output Y(�)
Given an array of microphones, the instantaneous direction-of-arrival (IDOA) information for a particular frequency bin can be found based on the phase differences of non-repetitive pairs of input signals. In particular, for M microphones (where M equals at least three) these phase differences form an M−1 dimensional space, spanning all potential IDOA. In one embodiment as illustrated in
As appreciated by those skilled in the art, the technique described herein can be extended to more than three microphones. Generally, if an IDOA vector is defined in this space as
Note that this is a gain-based estimator and accordingly the phase of the beamformer output signal is directly applied.
Method 500 provided in
At step 504, a determination is made as to whether the frame has a desired signal relative to noise therein. In the embodiment described, the desired signal is speech activity from the user, for example, whether the user of the headset having the microphone array is speaking. (However, in another embodiment, the desired signal could take any number of forms.)
At step 504, in the exemplary embodiment herein described, each audio frame is classified as having speech from the user therein or just having noise. In
At step 506, based on whether the user is speaking during a given frame, the signal or noise spatial variance λY and λD as provided by Eq. 6 is calculated for each frequency bin and used in the corresponding signal or noise model at the dimensional space computed at step 502.
In practical realizations of the proposed spatial noise reduction algorithm implemented by module 310, the (M−1)-dimensional space of the phase differences is mathematically discrete or discretized. Empirically, it has been found that using 10 bins to cover the range [−π, +π] provided adequate precision and results in a resolution of the differences in the phases of 36�. This converts λY and λD to square matrices for each frequency bin. In addition to updating the current cell in λY and λD, the averaging operator Ε[ ]can perform �aging� of the values in the other matrix cells.
In one embodiment, to increase the adaptation speed of the spatial noise suppressor, the signal and noise variance matrices λY and λD are computed for a limited number of equally spaced frequency subbands. The values for the remaining frequency bins can then be computed using a linear interpolation or nearest neighbor technique. Also in another embodiment, the computed value for a frequency bin can be duplicated or used for other frequencies having the same dimensional space position. In this manner, the signal and noise variance matrices λY and λD can adapt quicker, for example, for moving noise.
By way of example, the variance matrices for the subband around 1000 Hz are shown in
Method 700 in
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Page 163 - Knowledge never learned of schools, Of the wild bee's morning chase, Of the wild flower's time and place, Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood; How the tortoise bears his shell, How the woodchuck digs his cell, And the ground-mole sinks his well; How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung...
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Manganese \Man'ga*nese"\, noun [F. mangan['e]se, It. manganese, sasso magnesio; prob. corrupted from L. magnes, because of its resemblance to the magnet. See {Magnet}, and cf. {Magnesia}.] (Chem.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty (melting point 1244[deg] C), but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic number 25; Atomic weight 54.938 [C=12.011]. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: An alloy of manganese with iron (called ferromanganese) is used to increase the density and hardness of steel.
{Black oxide of manganese}, {Manganese dioxide} or {Manganese peroxide}, or {Black manganese} (Chem.), a heavy black powder {MnO2}, occurring native as the mineral pyrolusite, and valuable as a strong oxidizer; -- called also familiarly {manganese}. It colors glass violet, and is used as a decolorizer to remove the green tint of impure glass.
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… I'll be flying through the clouds with green like I'm Peter Pan."
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As an artist, I let my words get the best of me. Sometimes there are things that we feel, things that we want to express, and when we put them on paper and speak them out loud, they can come out wrong. When I expressed my frustration with the US Army, not only did my words come out wrong, I was wrong to even speak them. So, I write this to give my sincerest apology to all members of the United States military services, as well as their families that were offended by my most recent lyrics.
…In no way would I ever want to offend those who are protecting our freedoms … a lot of homeboys who I grew up with, a lot of people who come from the neighborhoods we live in … In no way do I want to hurt any of our honorable soldiers who put their lives at risk, regardless of how they feel about the two wars we fight in. I am just frustrated that we haven't been able to bring you all home quick enough and my frustration got the best of me. I am deeply sorry.
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