Adaptive beamforming strategies account for movement in source direction by continuously updating the spatial characteristics of the array for an optimal signal to noise ratio. The behavior of the array is thus determined by the nature of the source signal(s). The problem with adaptive strategies for the ALIVE space is that there are typically many observers around the space and the level of ambient speech-like sound is very high as a result. Adaptive algorithms do not perform well when multiple sources arrive simultaneously from different directions [2].\