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Voices do have a unique signature. The technology do identify it is called Speaker Identification. See for instance http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects
by ar7hur 12y ago
Voices do have a unique signature. The technology do identify it is called Speaker Identification. See for instance http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/whisperid http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/whisperid
> Each person's voice is different. Some sounds, like "s", sound about the same no matter who says them, but other sounds, like vowels, tend to differ a lot from person to person. We use a special way of representing sound, the cepstrum, that captures lots of information, including the characteristic way you pronounce your vowels. Of course, someone could imitate the way you talk; fortunately, the cepstrum also captures certain fundamental characteristics of voices that are impossible to change. For instance, the length of your vocal tract -- the place where sound is produced in your body -- cannot be changed, and different length vocal tracts tend to produce cepstra with different characteristics. By identifying both the way you talk, and the way your body produces sound, WhisperID can do a great job of figuring out who you are.
- aanchan 12y agoNo, speech recognition systems are not necessarily good at that. You need a speaker recognition system for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_recognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_recognition
- woodson 12y agoAs someone working in that area, I have to disagree. Sure, speaker recognition can work very well under certain circumstances, but there is no unique signature. (that would imply that you could successfully discriminate between any two speakers in the world, irrespective of any other factors)
- ar7hur 12y agoOK, maybe unique was a strong word. But banks are starting to use speaker ID to log in to mobile apps, so the signature is, let's say, unique enough for practical applications.