[Speex-dev] Query on Speex Echo Cancellation Constraints

[Steve Underwood]

On 03/08/2011 01:09 AM, KS wrote:
> Hi,
> From the Speex Manual, section 6.2.1 (Echo Cancellation - 
> Troubleshooting), it was mentioned that echo cancellation will not 
> work if the playback and capture is done on 2 different soundcard. I 
> would like to know whether this is true. I trying to use Speex Echo 
> Cancellation on capture audio from a webcam mic with the playback 
> through my onboard audio.
> Based on what is mentioned in the troubleshooting guide, does this 
> mean that I would never be able to get the Echo Cancellation to work 
> in my scenario?
> For my testing, I was using an echo tail length of 100ms and frame 
> size of 20ms. Using this setting, I found that the echo cancellation 
> does work, but it is too aggressive and cause the actual voice to get 
> attentuation as well, resulting in audio distortion that sounds like 
> audio drop. Increase the echo tail length to 120ms made the voice 
> attentuation issue less severe, but resulted in much of the echo 
> remaining in the audio.
> Does anyone have any advise on what I can look at and what parameters 
> I can tweak to try to improve the Speex Echo Cancellation performance? 
> I already using 1.2rc1. Thanks.
My advice is to read the recent archives of this mailing list.

Steve