Now if your mom tries to call from another number, she won’t slide by so easily with Microsoft’s new voice recognizing caller ID system.

The patent is headlined “Automatic identification of telephone callers based on voice characteristics,” and their system will use an “acoustic repository” - a database of sound patterns that a caller’s voice will be checked against for identification.

Now if your mom tries to call from another number, she won’t slide by so easily with Microsoft’s new voice recognizing caller ID system.

The patent is headlined “Automatic identification of telephone callers based on voice characteristics,” and their system will use an “acoustic repository” - a database of sound patterns that a caller’s voice will be checked against for identification.