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Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012

Filed:

Aug. 09, 2007
Applicants:

Adam Weinberg, Netanya, IL;

Irit Opher, Tel Aviv, IL;

Eyal Benaroya, Rehovot, IL;

Renan Gutman, Petach Tikva, IL;

Inventors:

Adam Weinberg, Netanya, IL;

Irit Opher, Tel Aviv, IL;

Eyal Benaroya, Rehovot, IL;

Renan Gutman, Petach Tikva, IL;

Assignee:

Nice Systems, Ltd., Raanana, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for identifying a speaker within a captured audio signal from a collection of known speakers. The method and apparatus receive or generate voice representations for each known speakers and tag the representations according to meta data related to the known speaker or to the voice. The representations are grouped into one or more groups according to the indices. When a voice to be recognized is introduced, characteristics are determined according to which the groups are prioritized, so that the representations participating only in part of the groups are matched against the voice to be identified, thus reducing identification time and improving the statistical significance.


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