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Patent US9792914 - Speaker verification using co-location information - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US9792914?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US9792914 - Speaker verification using co-location information
Publication number US9792914 B2
Application number US 15/201,972
Also published as CN106164921A, EP3129982A1, US9257120, US9412376, US20160019889, US20160019896, US20160314792, WO2016010616A1
Publication number 15201972, 201972, US 9792914 B2, US 9792914B2, US-B2-9792914, US9792914 B2, US9792914B2
Inventors Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
Patent Citations (100), Non-Patent Citations (36), Classifications (22), Legal Events (1)
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International Classification H04L29/06, G10L17/20, G10L17/00, G10L19/00, G06F21/32, G10L17/22, G10L15/18, H04W12/06, G10L15/08, G10L17/24
Cooperative Classification G10L17/20, G06F21/32, G10L17/24, G10L17/22, G10L15/18, H04L63/0861, G10L19/00, G06F2221/2111, G10L15/08, G10L2015/088, G10L17/00, H04W12/06