This book treats important topics in "Acoustic Echo and Noise Control" and reports the latest developments. Methods for enhancing the quality of transmitted speech signals are gaining growing attention in universities and in industrial development laboratories. This book, written by an international team of highly qualified experts, concentrates on the modern and advanced methods.

Authors are well known and highly recognized by the "acoustic echo and noise community." Presents a detailed description of practical methods to control echo and noise Develops a statistical theory for optimal control parameters and presents practical estimation and approximation methods

This book is based on the monograph Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, which was published by Wiley (2004). The information has been revised and updated with important new information included. The book contains fundamental analysis of new topics such as bandwidth extension and speech enhancement by partial signal reconstruction. Emphasis is put on entire systems such as speech dialog systems and in-car communication systems. The latter record the speech of the driver and the passenger in a car, process these signals to get rid of background and feedback components, and finally play them back via loudspeakers located close to the backseat passengers.