Patent ID: 7716048

Claim:
A speaker segmentation method for associating an at least one segment of speech for each of at least two sides of a summed audio interaction, with one of the at least two sides of the interaction, using additional information, the method comprising: a receiving step for receiving the summed audio interaction from a capturing and logging unit; a segmentation step for associating the at least one segment with one side of the summed audio interaction, the segmentation step comprising a parameterization step for transforming a speech signal into a set of feature vectors and dividing the set into non-overlapping segments; an anchoring step for locating an anchor segment for each of the at least two sides of the summed audio interaction, the anchoring step comprising: selecting a homogenous segment as a first anchor segment; constructing a first model of the homogenous segment; and selecting a second anchor segment such that its model is different from the first model; and a modeling and classification step for associating at least one second segment with each side of the summed audio interaction; and a scoring step for assigning a score to said segmentation.