TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Grimm, Simon A1 - Freudenberger, Jürgen T1 - Wind noise reduction for a closely spaced microphone array in a car environment JF - EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing N2 - This work studies a wind noise reduction approach for communication applications in a car environment. An endfire array consisting of two microphones is considered as a substitute for an ordinary cardioid microphone capsule of the same size. Using the decomposition of the multichannel Wiener filter (MWF), a suitable beamformer and a single-channel post filter are derived. Due to the known array geometry and the location of the speech source, assumptions about the signal properties can be made to simplify the MWF beamformer and to estimate the speech and noise power spectral densities required for the post filter. Even for closely spaced microphones, the different signal properties at the microphones can be exploited to achieve a significant reduction of wind noise. The proposed beamformer approach results in an improved speech signal regarding the signal-to-noise-ratio and keeps the linear speech distortion low. The derived post filter shows equal performance compared to known approaches but reduces the effort for noise estimation. KW - MVDR beamforming KW - Multichannel Wiener filter KW - Wind noise reduction KW - Speech signal processing KW - MEMS microphones Y1 - 2018 SN - 1687-4722 SS - 1687-4722 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13636-018-0130-z DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13636-018-0130-z IS - 7 SP - 9 S1 - 9 ER -