the goal of this bachelor or master thesis for one or more students is to explore the field of distributed microphones.
as the pandemic has shown, picking up audio from a room full of people (eg. for hybrid meetings) is quite a challenge. room microphones only work properly in rooms that have good audio in the first place (eg. no reverb) which often cannot be guaranteed. a promising approach to solve this problem is to use the many network-connected devices already present in a room full of people in order to create a singular audio-stream (for transmission and/or recording) that could potentially be of much higher quality than any other solution.
one or more prototypes of such a solution should be implemented and tested, based on different approaches of control (automatic control vs. user-control, push-to-talk vs. »throw the ball«, etc).