Submission + - Microsoft Awarded Voice Recognition Patent (www.rte.ie)
dueyfinster writes: "Microsoft has been issued with a patent for software that recognises the voice of a caller based on its tone. The patent was awarded to Microsoft developer Andrei Pascovici on Tuesday, and works by analysing the tone of the voice and comparing it to a database of existing recordings to identify the caller.
Is this yet another example of abuse of the patent system with 'obvious' and trivial developments being patented for no good reason?""A voice input is received from the caller, and the characteristics are applied to a plurality of acoustic models, which includes a generic acoustic model and acoustic models of any previously identified callers, to obtain a plurality of respective acoustic scores."
