  Acoustic room compensation techniques, which allow a sound reproduction
system to counteract undesired alteration to the sound scene due to excessive
room resonances, have been widely studied. Extensive efforts have been reported
to enlarge the region over which room equalization is effective and to contrast
variations of room transfer functions in space. A speaker-tuning technology
"Trueplay" allows users to compensate for undesired room effects over an
extended listening area based on a spatially averaged power response of the
room, which is conventionally measured using microphones on portable devices
when users move around the room. In this work, we propose a novel system that
leverages measured speaker echo path self-responses to predict the room average
power responses using a local PCA based approach. Experimental results confirm
the effectiveness of the proposed estimation method, which further leads to a
room compensation filter design that achieves a good sound similarity compared
to the reference system with the ground-truth room average power response while
outperforming other systems that do not leverage the proposed estimator.
