Abstract

Differential microphone arrays (DMAs), due to their small size and enhanced directivity, are quite promising in speech enhancement applications. However, it is well known that differential beamformers have the drawback of white noise amplification, which is a major issue in the processing of wideband signals such as speech. In this paper, we focus on the design of robust DMAs. Based on the Maclaurin’s series approximation and frequency-independent beampatterns, the robust first-, second-, and third-order DMAs are proposed by using more microphones than the order plus one, and the corresponding minimum-norm filters are derived. Compared to the traditional DMAs, the proposed designs are more robust with respect to white noise amplification while they are capable of achieving similar directional gains.

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