An identification device has a processor configured to carry out plural identification processing by which an individual is identified based on plural acquired data different from each other indicating the individual and, when the identification of the individual by one or more identification processing of the plural identification processing fails and the identification of the individual by one or more other identification processing of the plural identification processing succeeds, learn the at least one identification processing by which the identification of the individual fails.

A data control system comprises a user terminal such as a cellular phone, or an assist appliance, or a combination thereof, and a server in communication with the user terminal. The user terminal acquires the name of a person and an identification data of the person for storage as a reference on an opportunity of the first meeting with the person, and acquires the identification data of the person on an opportunity of meeting again to inform the name of the person with visual and/or audio display if the identification data is in consistency with the stored reference. The reference is transmitted to a server which allows another person to receive the reference on the condition that the same person has given a self-introduction both to a user of the user terminal and the another person to keep privacy of the same person against unknown persons.

A speech signal processing method and a related device thereof are provided. The method may be applied to the audio field and includes: obtaining a user speech signal captured by a sensor; obtaining a corresponding vibration signal when a user generates a speech, where the vibration signal indicates a vibration feature of a body part of the user, and the body part is a part that vibrates correspondingly based on sound-making behavior when the user is making a sound; and obtaining target speech information based on the vibration signal and the user speech signal captured by the sensor. In this application, the vibration signal is used as a basis for speech recognition.

A multi-function biometric scanner is provided. The multi-function biometric scanner includes a housing that includes a dome-shaped or semi-dome shaped user interface, the user interface including a capacitive film for fingerprint capture that is disposed along an outer-surface of the housing and a plurality of biometric sensors that are disposed within the housing and that are configured to concurrently retrieve a plurality of biometrics from a user, each sensor being configured to measure a respective biometric of the plurality of biometrics. Fingerprints and the plurality of biometrics are compared to threat information in one or more threat databases to identify a person of interest.

A multi-function biometric scanner is provided. The multi-function biometric scanner includes a housing that includes a dome-shaped or semi-dome shaped user interface, the user interface including a capacitive film for fingerprint capture that is disposed along an outer-surface of the housing and a plurality of biometric sensors that are disposed within the housing and that are configured to concurrently retrieve a plurality of biometrics from a user, each sensor being configured to measure a respective biometric of the plurality of biometrics. Fingerprints and the plurality of biometrics are compared to threat information in one or more threat databases to identify a person of interest.

A method of speaker identification comprises receiving an audio signal representing speech; performing a first voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled speaker; and, if the first voice biometric process makes an initial determination that the speech is the speech of an enrolled user, performing a second voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of the enrolled speaker. The second voice biometric process is selected to be more discriminative than the first voice biometric process.

A method of speaker identification comprises receiving an audio signal representing speech; performing a first voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled speaker; and, if the first voice biometric process makes an initial determination that the speech is the speech of an enrolled user, performing a second voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of the enrolled speaker. The second voice biometric process is selected to be more discriminative than the first voice biometric process.

Text independent speaker recognition models can be utilized by an automated assistant to verify a particular user spoke a spoken utterance and/or to identify the user who spoke a spoken utterance. Implementations can include automatically updating a speaker embedding for a particular user based on previous utterances by the particular user. Additionally or alternatively, implementations can include verifying a particular user spoke a spoken utterance using output generated by both a text independent speaker recognition model as well as a text dependent speaker recognition model. Furthermore, implementations can additionally or alternatively include prefetching content for several users associated with a spoken utterance prior to determining which user spoke the spoken utterance.

A conference data processing method includes that a conference terminal collects an audio segment in a first conference site based on a sound source direction in a conference process, generates first additional information corresponding to each of the collected audio segments, and sends, to a conference information processing device, a conference audio recorded in the conference process and the first additional information; the conference information processing device segments the conference audio into a plurality of audio segments and attaches corresponding second additional information to the plurality of audio segments, where the second additional information corresponding to each audio segment includes information used to determine a speaker identity corresponding to the audio segment and identification information of the corresponding audio segment, and the conference information processing device generates a correspondence between a participant and a statement based on the first additional information and the second additional information.

The present invention provides a system and method for presenting global issues to users and followers of a social media platform, allowing the users and followers to provide viewpoints on the global issues, ensuring that the users providing the viewpoints are authentic, and analyzing the various viewpoints to develop statistical data including the location of those providing viewpoints. The present invention also allows a user to present a global issue for consideration by users of the platform, for example, a social media internet-based website, and allows followers of the user to provide their viewpoints on such global issue. Simultaneously, the location of said followers will be collected and collated along with their responses.