The present invention relates to a microphone array based pickup method, comprising: performing voice activation detection using one channel voice signal among multichannel voice signals picked up and output by a microphone array, and determining if a voice activation signal occurs; locating the voice source by using the multichannel voice signals output by the microphone array to obtain the voice source locating direction; enhancing a voice signal in the voice source locating direction to obtain an enhanced voice signal; conducting voice wakeup detection on the enhanced voice signal and determining if a voice wakeup is detected; picking up and outputting the multichannel voice signals by the microphone array; Step