| CPC G10L 21/0216 (2013.01) [G10L 2021/02082 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02163 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims | 

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               1. A method of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), the method performed by at least one processor and comprising: 
            receiving an audio signal obtained from a microphone; 
                inputting the audio signal into a neural-network based AEC model, wherein the neural-network based AEC model is trained using a training audio signal; and 
                outputting an AEC signal from the neural-network based AEC model in which AEC is applied to the audio signal, wherein the AEC signal is a version of the audio signal in which acoustic echo noise of the audio signal is suppressed and target audio of the audio signal is sustained, and wherein the neural-network based AEC model outputs the AEC signal based on estimating a far-end non-linear distortion, a transition factor, and a non-linear transition function. 
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