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The hands-free telephone problem: an annotated bibliography update

PrOblème de la Téléphonie mains-libres: mise à jour de la bibliographie commentée

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Providing means for a full-duplex hands-free telephone conversation is still a research topic in many communication and signal processing laboratories around the world. More than ninety publications mainly from the last two and a half years support this statement. The reason for these activities lies in the complexity of the problem: full-duplex telephone communication without hand-sets requires electronic replicas of the loudspeaker-enclosure-microphone systems used by the communicating parties. The impulse response of such a system is typically several 100 ms long and time varying. Therefore, the replica has to be adaptive while the adaptation is controlled by speech signals. Regarding these requirements the hands-free telephone problem may currently be considered as one of the most challenging signal processing problems. This bibliography supplements a bibliography composed approximately two and a half years ago [29]. Brief summaries are given on papers published since then.

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L’étude des techniques permettant la communication mains-libres en duplex est toujours un sujet de recherche dans de nombreux laboratoires travaillant dans les télécommunications et le traitement du signal de par le monde. Cette observation est étayée par l’existence de plus de quatre-vingt dix publications parues principalement depuis deux ans et demi. La communication téléphonique duplex sans combiné nécessite la modélisation du système constitué par le haut-parleur, la salle et le microphone à chaque extrémité. La réponse impulsionnelle de tels systèmes a une longueur typique de plusieurs centaines de millisecondes et varie au cours du temps. Par conséquent, le modèle doit être adaptatif, l’adaptation étant contrôlée par le signal de parole. Compte tenu de ces diverses contraintes, la téléphonie mains-libres peut être considérée actuellement comme l’un des problèmes les plus difficiles en traitement du signal. La présente bibliographie complète une bibliographie établie il y a environ deux ans et demi [29] ; elle donne un bref résumé des articles publiés depuis lors.

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