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Acoustic Echo and Noise Control: A Practical Approach

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This book is an excellent reference on echo control and noise suppression. The authors have pulled in a vast amount of information and written a cogent and readable tome. The book covers both echo suppression and echo cancellation--treating the common algorithms in detail (LMS, NLMS, Affine Projection, Fast Affine Projection, Kalman Filter). The true value of the book is that the authors don't skimp on the treatment of the control issues that are generally glossed over: rescue control, double talk detection, training control, normalization and regularization. The book is not without imperfections, but they are minor:

i. The book does read like it was co-authored. There are noticable differences in style between chapters and some redundancy that is likely due to how the authors divided the work.
ii The authors touch on various ITU and ETSI standards, but the treatment is cursory.
iii. The proof-readers failed in a place or too (e.g., the reference to "barer services" instead of "bearer services").

But all, in all, this is by far the most complete and accessible reference on acoustic echo and noise control.

This book's clear structure and comprehensive content makes it an ideal textbook for advanced college or graduate students. It is also a great reference book for researchers who are new to the acoustic echo and noise control area. The language of the book is precise and easy to understand. It contains more than 400 very illustrative diagrams, figures and tables.