Patent Document ID: 9514753
Application ID: 14523198

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: obtaining an utterance vector that is derived from an utterance; determining hash values for the utterance vector according to multiple different hash functions; determining a set of speaker vectors from a plurality of hash tables using the hash values, each speaker vector being derived from one or more utterances of a respective speaker; comparing the speaker vectors in the set with the utterance vector; selecting a speaker vector based on comparing the speaker vectors in the set with the utterance vector; determining a speaker identity corresponding to the selected speaker vector; and outputting data indicating the speaker identity.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein comparing the speaker vectors in the set with the utterance vector comprises determining similarity scores that each indicate a degree of similarity of the utterance vector and one of the speaker vectors in the set; and wherein selecting a speaker vector comprises selecting the speaker vector that the similarity scores indicate is most similar to the utterance vector.