Patent Document ID: 7809561
Application ID: 11692470
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for enrollment of speaker authentication, comprising: inputting an utterance containing a password that is spoken by a speaker; extracting an acoustic feature vector sequence from said inputted utterance; DTW(Dynamic Timing Warping)-matching said extracted acoustic feature vector sequence and a speaker template enrolled by an enrolled speaker; calculating each of a plurality of local distances between said DTW-matched acoustic feature vector sequence and said speaker template; nonlinear-transforming said each local distance calculated to give more weights on small local distances; calculating a DTW-matching score based on said plurality of local distances nonlinear-transformed; and comparing said matching score with a predefined discriminating threshold to determine whether said inputted utterance is an utterance containing a password spoken by the enrolled speaker, wherein said nonlinear-transforming said each local distance calculated is performed by using a function, the third derivative of which is negative at the range of (0, ∞).