Multichannel speech enhancement using convolutive transfer function approximation in reverberant environments

Recently, we have presented a transfer-function generalized sidelobe canceler (TF-GSC) beamformer in the short time Fourier transform domain, which relies on a convolutive transfer function approximation of relative transfer functions between distinct sensors. In this paper, we combine a delay-and-sum beamformer with the TF-GSC structure in order to suppress the speech signal reflections captured at the sensors in reverberant environments. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed beamformer and compare it with the TF-GSC. We show that the proposed algorithm enables suppression of reverberations and further noise reduction compared with the TF-GSC beamformer.