Shared-Account Online Meeting Speaker Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

In online meetings, multiple attendees speaking through a single account makes it difficult for participants to identify the current speaker, reducing efficiency and experience.

Innovation Solution

An online meeting processing method and apparatus that displays speaking indication information for each attendee when they speak, using a target account for multiple meeting objects, enabling clear identification of the speaking attendee.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If multiple attendees speak through a single meeting account, then the meeting setup is simple and unified, but the ability to identify the current speaker is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeeting account configurationVSAvoidspeaker identification information
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the single meeting account into multiple virtual attendee identities, each representing a different speaker. Voiceprint recognition technology divides the audio stream and attributes speech to specific virtual attendees, enabling individual speaker identification while maintaining the unified account structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces voiceprint recognition as an intermediary mechanism between the microphone input and the meeting account. This intermediary analyzes audio characteristics, identifies speakers through voiceprint matching, and displays speaker information without requiring separate meeting accounts for each attendee.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If all attendees use one meeting account, then login is simplified, but meeting efficiency deteriorates due to inability to determine current speaker

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelogin processVSAvoidmeeting efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service speaker identification through automatic voiceprint recognition. The meeting system automatically captures audio, performs voiceprint analysis, and displays speaker information without requiring manual account switching or identification by other attendees, thus maintaining operational simplicity while improving meeting efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides real-time feedback by displaying speaker identification information during the meeting. This feedback loop allows all attendees to know who is currently speaking, improving communication flow and meeting productivity while maintaining the simplified single-account login approach.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If a single meeting account is used for multiple objects, then account management is simplified, but speaker identification capability is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccount compatibilityVSAvoidspeaker identification accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the identification parameter from account-based to voiceprint-based. By analyzing acoustic parameters such as pitch, timbre, and speech patterns, the system achieves precise speaker identification while maintaining compatibility with the existing single meeting account structure, allowing multiple meeting objects to be identified accurately.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250322369A1Online meeting processing method and apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product
Publication Date: 2025.10.16 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

An online meeting processing method including displaying a meeting interface of an online meeting logged in through one target account, the target account being provided for a plurality of meeting objects in one meeting place to attend the online meeting, and displaying speaking indication information indicating that a target meeting object is speaking on the meeting interface when any target meeting object in the plurality of meeting objects speaks.