回声减少问题定义如下。用M表示通道(麦克风)的数量,t时刻在麦克风处观察到的混合\(\mathbf{d}^{\text {echo }}(t) \in \mathbb{R}^{M \times 1}\)是近端信号\(\mathbf{s}(t) \in \mathbb{R}^{M \times 1}\)和声学回声\(\mathbf{y}(t) \in \mathbb{R}^{M \times 1}\)的和:
\[\mathbf{d}^{\text {echo }}(t)=\mathbf{s}(t)+\mathbf{y}(t) (1) \]