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Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2019
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ling Guo, Tokyo, JP;

Hitoshi Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Takafumi Koshinaka, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01);
Abstract

A speech processing device includes: first segment means for dividing first speech into a plurality of first speech segments; second segment means for dividing second speech into a plurality of second speech segments; primary speaker recognition means for calculating scores indicating similarities between the plurality of first and second speech segments; threshold value calculation means for calculating a threshold value based on scores indicating similarities between the plurality of first speech segments; speaker clustering means for classifying each of the plurality of second speech segments into one or more clusters having a similarity higher than the similarity indicated by the threshold value; and secondary speaker recognition means for calculating a similarity between each of the one or more clusters and the first speech and determining based on a result of the calculation whether speech corresponding to the first speech is contained in any of the one or more clusters.


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