An acoustic keystroke transient canceler for speech communication terminals using a semi-blind adaptive filter model

Abstract

In many teleconferencing applications using modern laptop and net-book devices it is common to encounter annoying keyboard typing noise. In this paper we propose an acoustic keystroke transient canceler for speech communication terminals as a novel broadband adaptive filter application in such a hands-free scenario. We present this approach in the context of the Google Chromebook Pixel device which is equipped with a special audio reference channel providing various new signal processing possibilities. Our novel semi-blind/semi-supervised approach exploiting this new degree of freedom, combined with the system-based broadband estimation and a novel adaptation control yields a high-quality speech enhancement even under challenging acoustic conditions.