Matthew Simpson Undergraduate Dissertation 2015/16

Microphone Array Speech Enhancement

Supervised by J.Barker

Abstract

Intelligibility is not fully understood, specifically with regards to beamforming . There are many beamforming  algorithms and for each there are many possible configurations, which means there is lots to consider when the intelligibility of the processed audio is evaluated.

Having a tool that allows a user to experiment with many different beamformer  configurations could allow for breakthroughs in the understanding of intelligibility. This project delivers a platform to explore beamforming  on, easily accessible on the internet. It affords the user a chance to experiment with beamformers  currently available on the system, or create their own to upload and use.

Due to the extensible and flexible nature of the platform, it could be used in many situations involving beamforming . It could make a worthy tool for academic research , especially if further functions were added to the system.