Abstract: A voice model database server determines the identity of a speaker through a network over which the voice model database server provides to one or more speech-recognition systems output data regarding a person with access to the speech-recognition system receiving the output data. The voice model database server attempts to locate, based on the identity of the speaker, a voice model for the speaker. Finally, the voice model database server retrieves from a storage area the voice model for the speaker, if the voice model database server located a voice model for the speaker.

Abstract: A method and system for allowing an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to recognize arbitrary words, by accessing information in a supplemental data base. A supplemental data base is accessed to retrieve supplementary textual information, such as a proper name. A text-to-speech means is used to generate a phoneme transcription of the text retrieved from the supplemental data base, so that the transcription may be used as a speaker independent template by the ASR system for recognizing a spoken word.