Patent ID: 7672844
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A voice identification processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of microphones arranged to direct to respectively different sound collecting directions; a microphone selection means for selecting one microphone in accordance with sound pressures of sounds collected by said plurality of microphones; a voiceprint recognition means for processing a voice signal into voiceprint recognizable periods, for successively performing voiceprint recognition in each voiceprint recognizable period based on the voice signal collected by said one microphone and for generating voiceprint data for each voiceprint recognizable period, wherein when a length of the processed voice signal is less than the voiceprint recognizable period, no voiceprint data is generated; and a data processing means for processing the voice signal collected by said one microphone to identify a speaker in accordance with the voiceprint data generated by said voiceprint recognition means and when the length of the processed voice signal is less than the voiceprint recognizable period, identifying the speaker based on a last voiceprint recognizable period.