CONFERENCE SYSTEM WITH A MICROPHONE ARRAY SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF SPEECH ACQUISITION IN A CONFERENCE SYSTEM
A conference system (1000) is provided, comprising: a microphone array unit (2000) having a plurality of microphone capsules (2001 - 2017) arranged in or on a board (2020) mountable on or in a ceiling of a conference room (1001). The microphone array unit (2000) has a steerable beam (2000b) and a maximum detection angle range (2730). The conference system comprises a processing unit (2400) which is configured to receive the output signals of the microphone capsules (2001 - 2017) and to steer the beam based on the received output signal of the microphone array unit (2000). The processing unit (2400) is configured to control the microphone array (2000) to limit the detection angle range (2730) to exclude at least one predetermined exclusion sector (2731) in which a noise source is located.