Patent ID: 8818810

Claim:
A method for verifying an identity of a person: generating, with an audio input device, audio data corresponding to utterances spoken by a person; identifying first utterance data in the audio data with an audio data processor; generating an output with a user interface device to prompt the person to speak a registration name in response to the identified first utterance data corresponding to a predetermined trigger utterance; storing the identified first utterance data in a memory in response to the identified first utterance data corresponding to the predetermined trigger utterance; generating audio data corresponding to the spoken registration name with the audio input device; identifying second utterance data in the audio data corresponding to the spoken registration name with the audio data processor; storing the identified second utterance data in the memory; verifying, with a speaker verification module, that the person is a user registered in a registration database in association with the registration name in response to the first and second utterance data stored in the memory corresponding to a predetermined model of a voice of the user registered in the registration database in association with the registration name; and generating an output with the user interface device to offer services to the person in response to the speaker verification module verifying that the person is the user registered in the registration database.