Speaker Diaphragm Excursion Prediction: deep attention and online adaptation
This addresses speaker protection for mobile devices with tiny loudspeakers, representing an incremental improvement over traditional solutions.
The paper tackles the problem of predicting nonlinear speaker diaphragm excursion to prevent damage while maintaining loudness in mobile phones, achieving >99% residual DC less than 0.1 mm in tests with two speakers and three deployment scenarios.
Speaker protection algorithm is to leverage the playback signal properties to prevent over excursion while maintaining maximum loudness, especially for the mobile phone with tiny loudspeakers. This paper proposes efficient DL solutions to accurately model and predict the nonlinear excursion, which is challenging for conventional solutions. Firstly, we build the experiment and pre-processing pipeline, where the feedback current and voltage are sampled as input, and laser is employed to measure the excursion as ground truth. Secondly, one FFTNet model is proposed to explore the dominant low-frequency and other unknown harmonics, and compares to a baseline ConvNet model. In addition, BN re-estimation is designed to explore the online adaptation; and INT8 quantization based on AI Model efficiency toolkit (AIMET\footnote{AIMET is a product of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.}) is applied to further reduce the complexity. The proposed algorithm is verified in two speakers and 3 typical deployment scenarios, and $>$99\% residual DC is less than 0.1 mm, much better than traditional solutions.