Digital media voice tags in social networks

• US 8,903,847 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2010
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bailey, Mark, Christensen, James E., Danis, Catalina M., Ellis, Jason B., Erickson, Thomas D., Farrell, Robert G., Kellogg, Wendy A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Greta
• Assistant Examiner(s): Weinrich, Brian E.
• Application Number:
  US12/718,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20110219018A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,733 Days
• Field of Search: 707/769, 707/736, 707/914, 707/915, 707/916, 704/235
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/10 using distance or distortion measures between unknown speech and reference templates
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/025 Phonemes, fenemes or fenones being the recognition units
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/303 Marking
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/915 Image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/916 Audio

Abstract

A voice tagging system includes a client computing device that includes a media object capture device and a voice capture device and runs a client application that associates media objects to voice samples. The system also includes a communications network coupled to the client computing device, a voice tagging system coupled to the communications network and receiving at least one association between a first media object and a first voice sample, and a database coupled to the voice tagging system, the database including one or more voice tags, each voice tag being coupled to one or more voice samples.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a client computing device, the client computing device including a media object capture device and a voice capture device and running a client application that associates media objects to voice samples;

a communications network coupled to the client computing device;

a voice tagging system coupled to the communications network and receiving at least one association between a first media object and a first voice sample, the voice tagging system receiving the first voice sample from an unidentified user and the voice tagging system being configured to identify the unidentified user that provided the first voice sample based on analysis speech components of the first voice sample; and

a database coupled to the voice tagging system, the database including one or more existing voice tags, each voice tag being coupled to one or more existing voice samples and including at least one voice tag coupled to two different voice samples,

wherein the system includes programming causing phoneme representations of the existing voice samples in the database to be compared to a phoneme representation of the first voice sample, wherein said comparing is based on an initial number of phonemes at the start of the first voice sample and the existing voice samples that is less than the total number of phonemes and includes sequentially comparing phonemes of a first existing voice sample to the phoneme representation of the first voice sample wherein earlier phonemes are weighted higher than later phonemes.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the client computing device is a cellular phone.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first media object is an image.