Talk:Speaker recognition
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Is this somehow distinct from Voice recognition, or should they be merged? -FZ 18:13, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Offhand, I think this article should be a section of Voice recognition. Joyous 18:30, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)
-
- Based on the redirect that already existed, it looks like voice recognition redirects to speaker recognition and disussion on the speech recognition page suggests that perhaps voice authentication should really be the title of this article. --DeweyQ 15:54, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
- Another question is whether this was distinct from speaker identification. That page has a message asking whether it should be merged into this one, and a link inviting discussion here. The term of art that I know is speaker identification or speaker ID, although my expertise is in a different (related) area, so I am not positive. To me, speaker ID suggests a 500-way decision (which of my acquaintances is it?), while speaker recognition suggests a binary decision (is it my master or not?). Eclecticos 13:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- To me the term speaker recognition means the recognition of a speaker. That is, the system recognizes the speaker. The term itself does not specify if the speaker is recognized from a pool of many others or if the speaker is re-recognized. Thus, it should include both verification and identification. BTW, the term authentication to me is just a synonym for verification and not for recognition just as voice is used as synonym for speaker in voice recognition. Gemuetlich 13:49, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Gemuetlich. Speaker verification or authentication checks that the voice is from a specific person, but speaker identification means that the person was selected from a group. Speaker recognition, however, is a general term and applies to both. I think the Speaker Recognition article explains this well and should have sections for speaker verification and identification.PantherDave 02:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
