A method according to the invention separates multiple audio signals
recorded as a mixed signal via a single channel. The mixed signal is A/D
converted and sampled. A sliding window is applied to the samples to
obtain frames. The logarithms of the power spectra of the frames are
determined. From the spectra, the a posteriori probabilities of pairs of
spectra are determined. The probabilities are used to obtain Fourier
spectra for each individual signal in each frame. The invention provides
a minimum-mean-squared error metho or a soft mask method for making this
determination. The Fourier spectra are inverted to obtain corresponding
signals, which are concatenated to recover the individual signals.