Motorola Corporation

Thomas Kroncke

William Joe Haber

William George Schmidt

A system and method for establishing a communication link, wherein the system includes a communications unit (,, FIG.,) having a vocoder (,) for providing user-specific voice data in the form of a unique set of speech characteristic model parameters for each authorized user. The method (,, FIG.,) includes the steps of providing user-specific voice data via a connection training method (FIGS.,or,), collecting a sample of speech characteristics from a user desiring to access the communication unit (,, FIG.,), comparing the sample with the user-specific voice data (,), granting the user access to the communication unit to establish a communication link with another communication unit if the sample is comparable with the user-specific voice data (,), and denying the user access to the communication unit if the sample is incomparable with the user-specific voice data (,).

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Gilbert, AZ, United States of America

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