Acoustic echo control and noise suppression is an important part of any
"handsfree" telecommunication system, such as telephony or audio or video
conferencing systems. Bandwidth and computational complexity constraints
have prevented that stereo or multi-channel telecommunication systems
have been widely applied. The advantages are very low complexity, high
robustness, scalability to multi-channel audio without a need for
loudspeaker signal distortion, and efficient integration of echo and
noise control in the same algorithm. The proposed method for processing
audio signals, comprises the steps of: --receiving an input signal,
wherein the input signal is applied to a loudspeaker; --receiving a
microphone signal generated by a microphone; --estimating the delay
between the loudspeaker and the microphone signals and obtaining a
delayed loudspeaker signal, --estimating a coloration correction values
of the echo path on the delayed loudspeaker signal, --using information
of the delayed loudspeaker signal, microphone signal, and coloration
correction values to determine gain filter values, --apply the gain
filter values to the microphone signal to remove the echo.