The disclosure includes a voice isolation system comprising an acoustic echo-cancelation subsystem configured to receive a plurality of input signals, subtract an interference component from the input signals, and provide a plurality of output signals. The system also includes an adaptive beamformer subsystem configured to receive the plurality of output signals from the acoustic echo-cancelation subsystem and compute a signal-to-noise ratio enhanced signal based on the received output signals. The system also includes a residual noise suppressor subsystem configured to attenuate at least one portion of the SNR enhanced signal received from the adaptive beamformer subsystem based on the at least one portion having an SNR below a predetermined SNR threshold. The system also includes an automatic gain control subsystem configured to process a signal outputted from the residual noise suppressor subsystem and transmit a resulting signal as an output signal.

There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver carried by the housing, a reference internal noise sensor carried by the housing, and active noise control circuitry that is configured to use a signal provided by the reference internal noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver.

Embodiments of systems and methods for adaptive sound equalization in personal hearing devices are disclosed. In some embodiments a microphone in a personal hearing device receives sound from the listener's environment. The sound then is analyzed to determine one or more desired targets, for instance loudness level or spectral balance. The determined targets then are used to control adaptive processing of the sound received by the microphone to generate a perceptually improved sound to render to the listener.

An apparatus, method and computer program product for: receiving information on a position of at least one user with respect to a spatial audio field provided by an audio source device, determining an audio volume level at the position of the at least one user, receiving information relating to background noise generated by the audio source device when providing the spatial audio field, determining, based on the audio volume level at the position of the at least one user and the information relating to the background noise, control information for controlling the audio source device, and controlling the audio source device based on the control information when providing the spatial audio field.

Disclosed herein are methods for operating an apparatus for generating acoustic compensation signals used to compensate acoustic signals from operation of a motor-vehicle engine, comprising the steps: providing an EOC device, which is designed to generate acoustic compensation signals used to compensate acoustic signals that result from the operation of the engine; providing a device configured using the EOC device as a model; determining at least one audio signal to be output into a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle by means of an audio output device, before said audio signal is captured by an audio capturing element associated with the EOC device; applying an evaluation specification to evaluate the at least one audio signal with respect to at least one evaluation criterion; generating evaluation information with respect to the at least one evaluation criterion; controlling the operation of the EOC device on the basis of the evaluation Information.

An electronic stethoscope device can be integrated into a conventional stethoscope to digitize auscultated sounds from the body of a patient. The device can be switched off so that the conventional stethoscope can be used as a standard stethoscope. When the device is switched on, the digitized auscultated sounds can be modified to remove the noise. Such modified sounds can be sent wirelessly from the electronic stethoscope device to a peripheral device that can receive such wireless signals, such as computer, cell phone, or cloud application, where the data can be viewed and manipulated further as desired.

An ear cup housing has several reference microphones, an error microphone and a speaker. A processor drives the speaker for acoustic noise cancellation and transparency, by processing the microphone signals, and performs an oversight process by adjusting the reference microphone signals in response to detecting wind noise events and scratch events. In another aspect, the ear cup housing has an outside face that is joined to an inside face by a perimeter and the reference microphones are on the perimeter. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

An acoustic signal cancellation system is configured to perform: (a) provide a user device, associated with the system, and an audio capture device. (b) receive at system a captured signal indicative of a captured acoustic signal. It's received at capture device, and comprises a second acoustic signal generated by a second device, external to user device. (c) receive, from external source, a reference signal, indicative of a content included in the second signal. (d) in a case that a content of reference signal and the content in second signal are not time-synchronized, generate a synchronized reference signal, based on reference signal. Content of synchronized reference signal and second signal content are time-synchronized. (e) perform acoustic signal cancelling of that portion of captured signal which corresponds to second signal, based on reference signal. Generate reduced signal. This facilitates output of reduced signal to third device.

A multi-microphone device that can perform acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) without an external reference signal. The device uses the audio data from one of its microphones as a reference for purposes of AEC and acoustic noise cancellation (ANC). The device determines filter coefficients for an adaptive filter for ANC when cancelling one microphone signal from another microphone's signal. Those filter coefficients are buffered and delayed and then used for AEC operations cancelling one microphone signal from another microphone's signal. When desired audio (such as a wakeword, speech, or the like) is detected, the device may freeze the coefficients for purposes of performing AEC until the desired audio is complete. The device may then continue adapting and using the coefficients.

An ear cup housing has several reference microphones, an error microphone and a speaker. A processor drives the speaker for acoustic noise cancellation and transparency, by processing the microphone signals, and performs an oversight process by adjusting the reference microphone signals in response to detecting wind noise events and scratch events. In another aspect, the ear cup housing has an outside face that is joined to an inside face by a perimeter and the reference microphones are on the perimeter. Other aspects are also described and claimed.