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Hierarchical real-time speaker recognition for biometric VoIP verification and targeting

US8160877B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 2009
Grant dateApr 17, 2012
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Expiry dateSep 16, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L17/06
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for real-time speaker recognition including obtaining speech data of a speaker, extracting, using a processor of a computer, a coarse feature of the speaker from the speech data, identifying the speaker as belonging to a pre-determined speaker cluster based on the coarse feature of the speaker, extracting, using the processor of the computer, a plurality of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and a plurality of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) components from the speech data, determining a biometric signature of the speaker based on the plurality of MFCC and the plurality of GMM components, and determining in real time, using the processor of the computer, an identity of the speaker by comparing the biometric signature of the speaker to one of a plurality of biometric signature libraries associated with the pre-determined speaker cluster.

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