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G10L 17/00

Speaker identification or verification techniques

Introduced: January 2000

Last revised: January 2013

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
Subclass:
SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING

Filing statistics

IPC G10L 17/00 belongs to the parent subclass G10L, which recorded 174,065 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 8,115 in 2013 to 18,565 in 2023 (+129%), peaking at 21,649 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class G10 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (5,218 applications), GOOGLE (4,644 applications) and FRAUNHOFER (4,601 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Additional Content

speaker verification or authentication refers to verifying that the user claimed identity is real, otherwise he is an imposter. Speaker recognition, or identification, aims at determining who the user is among a closed (finite number) set of users. He is otherwise unknown. imposter imposters someone actively trying to counterfeit someone else’s identity.

Related Keywords

speaker identification

8 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G10L 17/02 Preprocessing operations, e.g. segment selection; Pattern representation or modelling, e.g. based on linear discriminant analysis [LDA] or principal components; Feature selection or extraction
  • G10L 17/04 Training, enrolment or model building
  • G10L 17/16 Hidden Markov models [HMM]
  • G10L 17/18 Artificial neural networks; Connectionist approaches
  • G10L 17/2 Pattern transformations or operations aimed at increasing system robustness, e.g. against channel noise or different working conditions
  • G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G10, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 5,218
  2. GOOGLE US 4,644
  3. FRAUNHOFER DE 4,601
  4. SONY CORPORATION JP 2,380
  5. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 2,179
  6. YAMAHA CORPORATION 2,120
  7. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,974
  8. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 1,916
  9. AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES US 1,866
  10. DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION US 1,843