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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2012
Philip Hewinson, London, GB;
Philip Hewinson, London, GB;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for conducting a teleconference between participants over a teleconference system is disclosed. The teleconference system can include a server in communication with a plurality of client terminals. A first utterance may include a plurality of words, including an identifier of one of the plurality of participants and at least one additional word, may be received. The server can recognize the plurality of words and parse the identifier from the at least one additional word. The identifier may be associated to a voiceprint of the one of the plurality of participants. A second utterance can be obtained and compared to the voiceprint in order to determine that the identifier is associated with the second utterance. The identifier can be provided from the server to at least one client terminal in response to determining that the identifier is associated with the second utterance.