Disclosed in the present invention is a method for cancelling echo in joint time domain and frequency domain. The method includes: receiving an input receiver signal and an input transmitter signal; implementing echo cancellation on the received transmitter signal, based on the received receiver signal, by using a first echo canceller which is either a time domain echo canceller or a frequency domain echo canceller, to obtain a first echo-cancelled signal; implementing echo cancellation again on the first echo-cancelled signal, based on the received receiver signal, by using a second echo canceller which is the other one of the time domain echo canceller and the frequency domain echo canceller, to obtain a second echo-cancelled signal; wherein, and the first and second echo canceller respectively include the corresponding first and second filters, and the filter parameter of the second filter is updated based on the input receiver signal, the second echo-cancelled signal and the filter parameter of the first filter. By using said method in the present invention, fast response to echo reflecting environment can be achieved with little residual echo, thus the effect of echo cancellation is entirely improved.