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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
Yan Ming Cheng, Inverness, IL (US);
Yan Ming Cheng, Inverness, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus () for updating a voice tag comprising N stored voice tag phoneme sequences includes a function () for determining () an accepted stored voice tag phoneme sequence for an utterance, a function () for extracting() a current set of M phoneme sequences having highest likelihoods of representing the utterance, a function () for updating () a reference histogram associated with the accepted voice tag, and a function () for updating () the voice tag with N selected phoneme sequences that are selected from the current set of M phoneme sequences and the set of N voice tag phoneme sequences, wherein the N selected phoneme sequences have phoneme histograms most closely matching the reference histogram. The method and apparatus () also generates a voice tag using some functions () that are common with the method and apparatus to update the voice tag, such as the extracting () of the current set of M phoneme sequences.