US Patent 9711148 Dual model speaker identification

A processing system receives an audio signal encoding an utterance and determines that a first portion of the audio signal corresponds to a predefined phrase. The processing system accesses one or more text-dependent models associated with the predefined phrase and determines a first confidence based on the one or more text-dependent models associated with the predefined phrase, the first confidence corresponding to a first likelihood that a particular speaker spoke the utterance. The processing system determines a second confidence for a second portion of the audio signal using one or more text-independent models, the second confidence corresponding to a second likelihood that the particular speaker spoke the utterance. The processing system then determines that the particular speaker spoke the utterance based at least in part on the first confidence and the second confidence.