Patent ID: 6754631
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A method for memorializing a conversation of a plurality of speakers, comprising:sampling a sample utterance of each of the plurality of speakers thereby producing a plurality of sample utterances each having a characteristic corresponding to a corresponding one of the speakers; associating a characteristic of the sample utterances with the corresponding one of the plurality of speakers; recording the conversation by saving the conversation to a storage medium as the conversation occurs whereby conversation utterances generated by each of the plurality of speakers during the conversation are saved to the storage medium; identifying the one of the plurality of speakers who generated each one of the conversation utterances by matching the characteristic of the sample utterance associated with the corresponding one of the plurality of speakers with a characteristic of the conversation utterance; associating information regarding the identified speaker with at least one of the conversation utterances; generating a transcript of the conversation, the transcript including the information associated with the at least one of the conversation utterances; and interpreting the transcript of the conversation and generating a summary of the conversation based upon said interpreting the transcript.