Joint filterbanks for echo cancellation and audio coding

In this paper, joint structures for audio coding and echo cancellation are investigated, utilizing standard audio coders. Two types of audio coders are considered, coders based on cosine modulated filterbanks and coders based on the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT). For the first coder type, two methods for combining such a coder with a subband echo canceler are proposed. The two methods are: a modified audio coder filterbank that is suitable for echo cancellation but still generates the same final decomposition as the standard audio coder filterbank, and another that converts subband signals between an audio coder filterbank and a filterbank designed for echo cancellation. For the MDCT based audio coder, a joint structure with a frequency-domain adaptive filter based echo canceler is considered. Computational complexity and transmission delay for the different coder/echo canceler combinations are presented. Convergence properties of the proposed echo canceler structures are shown using simulations with real-life recorded speech.