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Near-Field Adaptive Beamforming

The following sound files are taken from real recordings using an 11 microphone array. The desired speaker was located at 70 cm directly in front of the centre microphone. A localised noise source was placed 56 degrees and 2.7 m from the centre microphone.

(Ref: Iain A. McCowan, Darren C. Moore and S. Sridharan, "Near-field Adaptive Beamformer for Robust Speech Recognition", Digital Signal Processing, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 87-106.)