Patent ID: 8751029

Claim:
An apparatus for identifying and extracting a reverberant component of an audio signal, the apparatus comprising: a signal processor configured to receive and process a previously recorded audio signal; an impulse response estimator executable with the signal processor to produce from the previously recorded audio signal a representation of an estimated impulse response included in the previously recorded audio signal; a decompose processor executable with the signal processor to use the representation of the estimated impulse response to decompose the previously recorded audio signal into an estimated original dry signal component and an estimated reverberant signal component; a modifier executable with the signal processor to independently modify the estimated original dry signal component and the estimated reverberant signal component of the previously recorded audio signal; and a recompose processor executable with the signal processor to combine the modified estimated original dry signal component and the modified estimated reverberant signal component of the previously recorded audio signal to produce one or more adjusted frequency spectra.