Multi-Channel Linear Prediction Speech Dereverberation Algorithm Based on QR-RLS Adaptive Filter

This paper proposes a multi-channel linear prediction (MCLP) speech dereverberation algorithm based on QR-decomposition recursive least squares (QR-RLS) adaptive filter, which can avoid the possible instability caused by the RLS algorithm, and achieve same speech dereverberation performance as the prototype MCLP dereverberation algorithm based on RLS. This can be confirmed by the theoretical derivation and experiments. Thus, the proposed algorithm can be a good alternative for practical speech applications.

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