US Patent 7769588 Spoken man-machine interface with speaker identification

The method of operating a man-machine interface unit includes classifying at least one utterance of a speaker to be of a first type or of a second type. If the utterance is classified to be of the first type, the utterance belongs to a known speaker of a speaker data base, and if the utterance is classified to be of the second type, the utterance belongs to an unknown speaker that is not included in the speaker data base. The method also includes storing a set of utterances of the second type, clustering the set of utterances into clusters, wherein each cluster comprises utterances having similar features, and automatically adding a new speaker to the speaker data base based on utterances of one of the clusters.