Voiceprint-Based Account Binding in Voice Interaction Terminals

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Solution Overview

Problem

In devices with voice interaction as the primary mode, users often need to establish accounts for personalized services, but existing systems lack efficient methods for voice-based account management and recognition, especially in public terminal devices.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for a terminal device that receives voice information, generates voiceprint information, matches it with pre-stored voiceprints, and prompts users to bind or register accounts through voice questioning messages, enabling voiceprint recognition for account management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If voiceprint recognition is used for account management in public terminal devices, then personalized services can be provided, but the complexity of the system increases due to voice processing and account binding mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoice-based account management capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical interaction methods (touchscreen, physical buttons) with voice-based interaction. The system uses voiceprint recognition technology to identify users and manage accounts through voice commands, eliminating the need for complex manual account binding procedures and reducing interaction complexity for users while maintaining system functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to perform account binding and management operations autonomously through voice commands. When a user's voiceprint is recognized, the system automatically initiates account binding procedures without requiring manual intervention, thereby reducing the perceived system complexity from the user's perspective while maintaining robust account management capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If automatic account binding through voiceprint recognition is implemented, then user experience is improved, but the reliability of voiceprint matching and account association may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experienceVSAvoidvoiceprint matching accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms in the voiceprint recognition system. The system provides verbal feedback to users during the account binding process, confirming when voiceprint matching is successful and seeking verification when uncertainty arises. This feedback loop maintains high reliability by ensuring accurate user identification while preserving the ease of voice-based operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary voiceprint registration and storage before actual account binding operations. By pre-establishing and maintaining accurate voiceprint databases, the system ensures that subsequent recognition and matching operations achieve high accuracy, thereby maintaining reliability while enabling automatic account binding for improved user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple users can bind accounts through voice interaction in public terminal devices, then adaptability is enhanced, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring voiceprint information increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-user support capabilityVSAvoidvoiceprint detection complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the voiceprint detection and processing into distinct functional modules. The system separately handles voice capture, voiceprint extraction, voiceprint matching, and account binding operations as independent segments. This modular approach reduces the overall difficulty of detecting and measuring voiceprint information by allowing each segment to be optimized independently while supporting multiple users through the same structured process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10580413B2Method and apparatus for outputting information
Publication Date: 2020.03.03 BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECH (BEIJIBG) CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for outputting information. A specific embodiment of the method includes: receiving voice information, analyzing the voice information to generate voiceprint information; matching the voiceprint information with at least one piece of pre-stored voiceprint information; outputting, in response to determining the voiceprint information failing to match a piece of pre-stored voiceprint information in the at least one piece of pre-stored voiceprint information, a voice questioning message for determining whether to add a new user, and receiving a voice reply message returned from a user based on the questioning message; and outputting, in response to determining the voice reply message instructing to add the new user, a voice prompt message prompting the user to bind an account. The embodiment has improved the flexibility in the human-computer interaction.