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Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2015
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yoon Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);

Sachin S. Kajarekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 17/26 (2013.01); G10L 17/04 (2013.01); G10L 17/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/26 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G10L 17/04 (2013.01); G10L 17/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/1822 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and processes for generating a speaker profile for use in performing speaker identification for a virtual assistant are provided. One example process can include receiving an audio input including user speech and determining whether a speaker of the user speech is a predetermined user based on a speaker profile for the predetermined user. In response to determining that the speaker of the user speech is the predetermined user, the user speech can be added to the speaker profile and operation of the virtual assistant can be triggered. In response to determining that the speaker of the user speech is not the predetermined user, the user speech can be added to an alternate speaker profile and operation of the virtual assistant may not be triggered. In some examples, contextual information can be used to verify results produced by the speaker identification process.


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