Patent attributes
Disclosed are a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing method. The sound processing method includes extracting a desired voice enhanced signal by a sound source separation and a sound extraction. By using a multi-channel blind source separation method based on independent vector analysis, the desired voice enhanced signal is extracted from a channel having the smallest sum of off-diagonal values of a separation adaptive filter when the power of the desired voice signal is larger than that of other voice signals. According to the present disclosure, a user may build a robust artificial intelligence (AI) speech recognition system by using sound source separation and voice extraction using eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC techniques of 5G mobile communication.