Patent Document ID: 20160217792
Application ID: 15006572
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of blind diarization of audio data having a first-pass blind diarization process and a second-pass blind diarization process, the method comprising: identifying non-speech segments in the audio using a voice-activity-detector (VAD) and segmenting audio data into a plurality of utterance that are separated by the identified non-speech segments, representing each utterance as an utterance model representative of a plurality of feature vectors of each utterance; clustering the utterance models, constructing a plurality of speaker models from the clustered utterance models; constructing a hidden Markov model (HMM) of the plurality of speaker models; decoding a sequence of identified speaker models that best corresponds to the utterances of the audio data; for each segment that was identified by the VAD, decoding the segment using a large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder, wherein the LVCSR decoder outputs words and non-speech symbols; analyzing the sequence of output words and non-speech symbols from the LVCSR decoder, wherein non-speech parts are discarded and the segment is refined resulting in sub-segments comprising words constructing a second plurality of speaker models by feeding the resulting sub-segments into a clustering algorithm; constructing a second HMM of the second plurality of speaker models, decoding a best path corresponding to the sequence of output words in the second HMM by applying a Viterbi algorithm that performs word-level segmentation.