Abstract: A method for controlling echo canceling in an echo cancellation system using a state machine controller. A far-end speech signal transmitted through a communications channel may be passed through an echo channel to produce an echo signal. The echo signal is summed with a near-end speech signal and transmitted back to the far-end. An echo canceller rejects the echo signal by forming an estimate of the echo signal and subtracting the estimate from the sum of the near-end speech signal and the echo signal. The echo canceller includes a state machine which is configured into a predetermined state of a plurality of states depending on the presence near-end speech signal, far-end speech signal, or both near-end and far-end speech signals. Based on the predetermined state of the state machine, the controller in the state machine controls the update of coefficients of a plurality of adaptive filters.

Abstract: A echo-canceling modem uses pre-emphasis in both the transmitter and receiver sections. In particular, the receiver section of the modem processes a received signal with a pre-emphasis filter before performing echo cancellation on the received signal. The receiver pre-emphasis filter is identical to the transmitter pre-emphasis filter, i.e., the pre-emphasis added in the receiver is the same as the pre-emphasis added in the transmitter.

Abstract: An echo canceller for use in fixed-wireless telephony networks using low-rate packetized speech coding and DSI is disclosed. An adaptive filter is used to cancel an echo signal of a far-end signal introduced at the near-end by operating to provide a replica signal to cancel the echo signal. The replica signal is updated in the absence of a near-end talker signal presence of near talker signal is detected using an estimated echo-residual loss. The echo replica signal updating process is frozen upon the detection of double-talk. Residual echoes are suppressed without the use of non-linear processing. A residual suppression flag detection and a voice activated switching device are used to detect the absence of near-end signals. The switching device is opened if the signal to be transmitted is not a near-end signal or is noise.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for reducing, in communication signals received by a local network from a remote network (FAR-IN signals), that energy content that is attributable to echoes of signals transmitted into the local network (NEAR-IN signals). This is achieved, in part, by generating a time-varying TEMPLATE signal which represents the smoothed energy content of NEAR-IN signals delayed according to the echo path and attenuated by an estimated echo transmission loss. A non-linear processor passes the FAR-IN signal substantially without attenuation if it exceeds the threshold derived at least in part from the TEMPLATE, but attenuates the FAR-IN signal if it lies within a defined range below the threshold.