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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2002
Applicants:
Antonio Colmenarez, Maracaibo, VE;
Andreas Kellner, Aachen, DE;
Inventors:
Antonio Colmenarez, Maracaibo, VE;
Andreas Kellner, Aachen, DE;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/20 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An automatic speech recognizer only responsive to acoustic speech utterances is activated only in response to acoustic energy having a spectrum associated with the speech utterances and at least one facial characteristic associated with the speech utterances. In one embodiment, a speaker must be looking directly into a video camera and the voices and facial characteristics of plural speakers must be matched to enable activation of the automatic speech recognizer.