Hybrid echo canceller controllers

1. A system for controlling an echo canceller, comprising:

a cross-correlator configured to produce a cross-correlation based output that facilitates controlling the echo canceller by cross-correlating two signals associated with the echo canceller;

a discriminator configured to produce a discriminator output that discriminates between near-end signal and echo in a corrupted signal;

an echo canceller controller configured to control the echo canceller according to the cross-correlation based output and the discriminator output; and

a corrupted signal detector configured to facilitate detecting noise in the corrupted signal, wherein features of the corrupted signal detector are given by

χ CSD ( k,t )={log| M ( k,t )| 2 −log N M ( k,t )}

where N M (k,t) is a noise energy in frequency bin k and time-frame t of the corrupted signal, and M(k,t) is the kth bin of a frequency domain transform of the corrupted signal in time frame t.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cross-correlator and the discriminator are implemented at a frequency bin level.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cross-correlator is implemented at a frequency bin level and the discriminator is implemented at a frame level.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the corrupted signal detector and the discriminator are implemented by real time recurrent learning networks.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein features of the discriminator are given by

χ SD ( k,t )={log| M ( k,t )| 2 −log| X ( k,t )| 2 }

where M(k,t) is the kth bin of the frequency domain transform of the corrupted signal in time frame t and X is the kth bin of the frequency domain transform of the reference signal in time frame t.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the two signals associated with the echo canceller are the corrupted signal and the echo canceller's error signal.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cross-correlator produces the cross-correlation based output utilizing a decision statistic based on

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8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the echo canceller controller is configured to control the echo canceller according to an overall decision statistic.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the echo canceller is a line echo canceller.

10. Computer-executable instructions for performing a method of controlling an echo canceller, the computer-executable instructions stored on one or more computer-readable media, the method comprising:

producing a cross-correlation based output that indicates a presence of near-end signal or a presence of echo only with echo-path change in a corrupted signal by computing a decision statistic based on

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producing a discrimination output that differentiates the presence of near-end signal from a presence of echo in the corrupted signal; and

controlling the echo canceller according to the cross-correlation based output and the discrimination output.

11. The computer-executable instructions of claim 10 , wherein the echo canceller is an acoustic echo canceller.

12. A system for controlling an echo canceller, comprising:

two or more cross-correlators each configured to detect one or more conditions in a corrupted signal based on a cross-correlation of two signals associated with the echo canceller;

an echo canceller controller configured to control the echo canceller based on the conditions detected in the corrupted signal by the two or more cross-correlators; and

a corrupted signal detector configured to facilitate detecting noise only in the corrupted signal wherein features of the corrupted signal detector are given by

χ CSD ( k,t )={log| M ( k,t )| 2 −log N M ( k,t )}

where N M (k,t) is the noise energy in frequency bin k and time-frame t of the corrupted signal, and M(k,t) is the kth bin of the frequency domain transform of the corrupted signal in time frame t.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein at least one of the two or more cross-correlators is configured to cross-correlate the corrupted signal and the echo canceller's error signal.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein at least one of the two or more cross-correlators is configured to cross-correlate a reference signal with the echo canceller's error signal.

15. The system of claim 12 , wherein at least one of the two or more cross-correlators is configured to cross-correlate a reference signal and the corrupted signal.

16. The system of claim 12 , wherein the echo canceller is a line echo canceller.