... Pittsburgh, Pa, USA, September 2006 F Asano, S Ikeda, M Ogawa, H Asoh, and N Kitawaki, “Combined approach of array processing and independent component analysis for blind separation of acoustic signals,” ... Detected speech events Figure 2: An example of detected speech events SEPARATION OF SPEECH EVENTS In this section, overlapping speech events are separated using an adaptive/nonadaptive beamformer based ... 1727– 1738, 2004 F Asano and J Ogata, Detection and separation of speech events in meeting recordings, ” in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP ’06),...