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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1999
Hiroaki Hattori, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of recognizing a speaker of an input speech according to the distance between an input speech pattern, obtained by converting the input speech to a feature parameter series, and a reference pattern preliminarily registered as feature parameter series for each speaker is provided. Contents of the input and reference speech patterns is obtained by recognition. An identical section, in which the contents of the input and reference speech patterns are identical is determined. The distance between the input and reference speech patterns in the calculated identical content section is determined. The speaker of the input speech is recognized on the basis of the determined distance.