[Speex-dev] Clicking Problems with slightly clipped audio

[Jean-Marc Valin]

Actually, could you upload the input audio file somewhere so I can have
a look at it?

	Jean-Marc

Coffey, Michael a écrit :
> It appears that both the echo canceller and the noise reducer (NR)
> introduce rather severe clicking artifacts when presented with audio
> that has slightly overloaded the A/D converters. I am talking about
> speech that sounds just slightly distorted, due to clipping, when simply
> played back. If I pass that speech through the echo canceller or the
> noise reducer, it acquires really loud clicks and/or scratchiness in
> high amplitude sections.
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> Granted, it would be best if I could avoid any clipping in the first
> place. A problem, though, is that we can not control end user behavior
> and it is quite common for them to have their audio settings slightly
> out of adjustment.
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> I've found a workaround, which is to divide everything by two before
> sending it to the AEC or NR.
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> Is this a known problem? Would it be helpful for me to send a couple of
> .wav files to illustrate?
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> Thanks again for the great contributions.
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> -Michael
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