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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2004
Andrei Pascovici, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrei Pascovici, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for identifying a caller of a call from the caller to a recipient. A voice input is received from the caller, and characteristics of the voice input are applied to a plurality of acoustic models, which include a generic acoustic model and acoustic models of any previously identified callers, to obtain a plurality of respective acoustic scores. The caller is identified as one of the previously identified callers or as a new caller based on the plurality of acoustic scores. If the caller is identified as a new caller, a new acoustic model is generated for the new caller, which is specific to the new caller.