Pop Sound Protection and Reduction for Small Microphone Enclosures
- Status
- Finished
- Type
- Bachelor Project
- Announcement date
- 22 May 2013
- Student
- Martin Blaß & Michael Pirolt
- Mentors
- Research Areas
Short description
Pop sounds are a common problem in audio signal acquisition. They occur when the diaphragm of the microphone is deflected too much. This effect introduces significant distortion to the signal. Several approaches to reduce the are available, but they only work at a certain size of distance to the diaphragm.
We are interested in pop reduction and suppression for microphones in very small enclosures, such as mobile phones or dictation devices, where there is no room for conventional pop protection. This kind of devices are often used for automatic speech recognition and pop sound distortions significantly increase the word error rate.
You should provide an overview of the state-of-the-art for pop protection at different stages in the signal processing chain:
- Acoustic/mechanical approaches
- Signal processing
- Speech recognition
Your tasks
- Review of literature
- Documentation
Your profile/prerequisites
- Audio engineering
- Signal Processing