rceps matlab,Real cepstrum and minimum-phase reconstruction

A speech recording includes an echo caused by reflection off a wall. Use the real cepstrum to filter it out.

In the recording, a person says the word MATLAB®. Load the data and the sample rate, Fs=7418Hz.

load mtlb

% To hear, type soundsc(mtlb,Fs)

Model the echo by adding to the recording a copy of the signal delayed by Δ samples and attenuated by a known factor α: y(n)=x(n)+αx(n-Δ). Specify a time lag of 0.23 s and an attenuation factor of 0.5.

timelag = 0.23;

delta = round(Fs*timelag);

alpha = 0.5;

orig = [mtlb;zeros(delta,1)];

echo = [zeros(delta,1);mtlb]*alpha;

mtEcho = orig + echo;

Plot the original, the echo, and the resulting signal.

t = (0:length(mtEcho)-1)/Fs;

subplot(2,1,1)

plot(t,[orig echo])

legend('Original','Echo')

subplot(2,1,2)

plot(t,mtEcho)

legend('Total')

xlabel('Time (s)')

% To hear, type soundsc(mtEcho,Fs)

Compute the real cepstrum of the signal. Plot the cepstrum and annotate its maxima. The cepstrum has a sharp peak at the time at which the echo starts to arrive.

c = rceps(mtEcho);

[px,locs] = findpeaks(c,'Threshold',0.2,'MinPeakDistance',0.2);

clf

plot(t,c,t(locs),px,'o')

xlabel('Time (s)')

Cancel the echo by filtering the signal through an IIR system whose output, w, obeys w(n)+αw(n-Δ)=y(n). Plot the filtered signal and compare it to the original.

dl = locs(2)-1;

mtNew = filter(1,[1 zeros(1,dl-1) alpha],mtEcho);

subplot(2,1,1)

plot(t,orig)

legend('Original')

subplot(2,1,2)

plot(t,mtNew)

legend('Filtered')

xlabel('Time (s)')

% To hear, type soundsc(mtNew,Fs)