Patent Document ID: 7930179
Application ID: 11866125

Base Claim:
1. A system for segmenting multi-speaker speech data by speaker, the system comprising: a processor; a first module configured to control the processor to check whether segments in a first group of estimated segments overlap segments in a second group of estimated segments, wherein if segments of the first group overlap with segments of the second group, then pooling the first group and the second group; and a second module configured to control the processor to model and resegment any pooled groups and remaining groups of estimated segments to obtain stable segmentations.

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Claim 15:
15. A system of claim 1 , further comprising a third module configured to perform post-processing on the speaker segments by creating a segmentation lattice, wherein a best path through the segmentation lattice is a sequence of non-overlapping estimated segments such that an overall segmentation likelihood is maximized.