Patent ID: 9710219
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G10L

Claim:
1. A speaker identification method in a speaker identification system which identifies voice of a speaker positioned around a display to display a result of the identification on the display, the speaker identification system including a database which stores registered voice signals and speaker images, the registered voice signals being respectively generated based on voices of speakers, the speaker images being respectively associated with the registered voice signals and respectively representing the speakers, the method comprising: acquiring voice of a speaker positioned around the display; generating a speaker voice signal from the acquired voice of the speaker; identifying a registered voice signal corresponding to the generated speaker voice signal, from the registered voice signals stored in the database; and displaying the speaker image, which is stored in the database and is associated with the identified registered voice signal, on the display, at least while the voice of the speaker which forms a basis of generation of the speaker voice signal is being acquired, when a correction instruction from a speaker in relation to the speaker image is received, newly acquiring voice of the speaker who has instructed the correction; newly generating a speaker voice signal from the newly acquired voice of the speaker; and overwriting the registered voice signal, which is stored in the database and is associated with the speaker image for which the correction instruction has been made, with the newly generated speaker voice signal, wherein the speaker identification system includes a remote controller which has buttons to be pressed down, each of the buttons being associated previously with each of the speaker images, and a speaker whose speaker image has been erroneously displayed on the display performs the correction instruction by speaking while pressing down the button associated with the speaker image representing the speaker whose speaker image has been erroneously displayed on the display.