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Speaker recognizer in which a significant part of a preselected one of input and reference patterns is pattern matched to a time normalized part of the other

  • US 4,403,114 A
  • Filed: 06/30/1981
  • Issued: 09/06/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A speaker recognizing system comprising:

  • input time sequence producing means responsive to an input speech sound, spoken by a speaker to be recognized and comprising a significant sound of a predetermined nature informative of said speaker, for producing an input time sequence of feature vectors representative of said input speech sound;

    significant sound specifying means responsive to said input speech sound for producing a sound nature signal which comprises a significant sound signal specifying said significant sound;

    specific time sequence producing means for producing a specific time sequence of feature vectors representative of a specific speech sound spoken by a specific speaker, said specific speech sound comprising a significant sound informative of said specific speaker;

    time normalizing means for time normalizing said input time sequence and said specific time sequences relative to each other to derive first and second normalized time sequences of feature vectors from said input time sequence and said specific time sequence, respectively;

    similarity measure calculating means responsive to said sound nature signal and said first and said second normalized time sequences for calculating a similarity measure between those feature vectors of said normalized time sequences of feature vectors which are selected from said first and said second normalized time sequences in compliance with said significant sound signal, respectively, said similarity measure calculating means producing a similarity measure signal representative of the calculated similarity measure; and

    means responsive to said similarity measure signal for recognizing whether or not the speaker to be recognized is said specific speaker.

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