4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of the computer determining one or more words further comprises the steps of the computer identifying a specified period of silence to indicate termination of a word within the speech segment.
1. A method of identifying at least one speaker from a speech segment obtained by a computer by determining one or more words of the speech segment by identifying one or more portions of a sound wave having a sound wave contour between silences, the method comprising the steps of: the computer analyzing the sound wave contour of at least a portion of the sound wave to determine one or more variations within the sound wave contour; the computer assigning one or more features to the one or more variations by selecting a feature from a plurality of features based on slope characteristics of the sound wave contour representing the one or more portions of the sound wave having the sound wave contour between silences; the computer mapping one or more assigned features to one or more sound constructs, wherein the one or more sound constructs are at least part of a word; the computer determining parameters of the assigned features and order in which the parameters occur within the sound wave contour to indicate the start of a vowel in the speech segment; the computer grouping the parameters into predefined characteristics; the computer combining the predefined characteristics into a voice characteristic group; and the computer comparing the voice characteristic group to a plurality of existing voice characteristic groups each of the plurality of voice characteristic groups being attributed to one of the plurality of single speakers and, if the predefined characteristics of the voice characteristic group match the predefined characteristics of one of the plurality of existing voice characteristic groups, the computer assigning the sound construct to a speaker identified by the existing voice characteristic group matching the voice characteristic group.