PROVIDING AUDIO-ACTIVATED RESOURCE ACCESS FOR USER DEVICES BASED ON SPEAKER VOICEPRINT

• US 20140006025A1
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.
• Original Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.
• Inventors: Krishnan, Harshini Ramnath, Fregly, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 9,996,628 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00

Abstract

This disclosure includes, for example, methods and computer systems for providing audio-activated resource access for user devices. The computer systems may store instructions to cause the processor to perform operations, comprising capturing audio at a user device. The operations may also comprise using a speaker recognition system to identify a speaker in the transmitted audio and/or using a speech-to-text converter to identify text in the captured audio. The speaker identity or a condensed version of the speaker identity or other metadata along with the speaker identity may be transmitted to a server system to determine a corresponding speaker identity entry. The operations may also comprise receiving a resource corresponding to the identified speaker entry in the server system.

Claims

1. A computer system for providing audio-activated resource access for user devices, the computer system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

capturing audio at a user device;

transmitting an identifier of a speaker of the captured audio identified by a speaker recognition system to a server system to determine a corresponding speaker entry; and

receiving a resource corresponding to the speaker entry.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein capturing audio comprises capturing audio from a microphone of the user device.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein capturing audio comprises capturing human-comprehensible audio.

4. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the speaker recognition system comprises speaker recognition technology.

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the user device is a mobile phone.

6. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the server computer system identifies speaker-resource pairings registered by an entity.

7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the resource comprises at least one of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), a Uniform Resource Number (URN), a domain name, a telephone number, or an Internet Protocol (IP) address.

8. The computer system of claim 7, wherein receiving the resource causes at least one of downloading a webpage associated with the resource or storing data associated with the resource.

9. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the resource comprises an action.

10. The computer system of claim 1, wherein transmitting an identifier of a speaker of the captured audio comprises transmitting a speaker name.

11. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting additional information for the captured audio to the server system, wherein the corresponding speaker entry is determined based on the additional information and the speaker identity.

12. A system for providing audio-activated resource access for user devices, the system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request from a first device to register a speaker-resource pairing;

registering the pairing in a database;

receiving a request from a second device for a resource corresponding to at least one speaker included in the request from the second device;

determining whether a speaker-resource pairing exists in the database based on the at least one speaker; and

transmitting at least one resource to the second device.

13. A method for providing audio-activated resource access for user devices, the method comprising:

capturing audio at a user device;

transmitting an identifier of a speaker of the captured audio identified by a speaker recognition system to a server system to determine a corresponding speaker entry; and

receiving a resource corresponding to the speaker entry.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein capturing audio comprises capturing human-comprehensible audio.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the speaker recognition system comprises speaker recognition technology.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the server system identifies speaker-resource pairings registered by an entity.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the resource comprises at least one of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), a Uniform Resource Number (URN), a domain name, or an Internet Protocol (IP) address.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the resource comprises an action.

19. A method for providing audio-activated resource access for user devices, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a first device to register a speaker resource pairing;

registering the pairing in a database;

receiving a request from a second device for a resource corresponding to at least one speaker included in the request from the second device;

determining whether a speaker-resource pairing exists in the database based on the at least one speaker; and

transmitting at least one resource to the second device.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method for providing audio-activated resource access for user devices, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a first device to register a speaker resource pairing;

registering the pairing in a database;

receiving a request from a second device for a resource corresponding to at least one speaker included in the request from the second device;

determining whether a speaker-resource pairing exists in the database based on the at least one speaker; and

transmitting at least one resource to the second device.