12. An apparatus comprising: a crystal microphone to receive a test utterance; a memory to store one or more reference templates, wherein each reference template includes data indicative of physical characteristics of a voice of a person; and a processing unit coupled to said memory, said processing unit to adapt one or more of said reference templates by replacing at least part of existing data within at least one of said reference templates with a weighted interpolation of said existing data and corresponding data within a test utterance; wherein adapting said one or more reference templates comprises: performing a dynamic time warp alignment between one of said reference templates and said test utterance; and replacing only a portion of original data within said one reference template with a weighted interpolation of said portion and data within one or more corresponding frames of said test utterance.
12. An apparatus comprising: a crystal microphone to receive a test utterance; a memory to store one or more reference templates, wherein each reference template includes data indicative of physical characteristics of a voice of a person; and a processing unit coupled to said memory, said processing unit to adapt one or more of said reference templates by replacing at least part of existing data within at least one of said reference templates with a weighted interpolation of said existing data and corresponding data within a test utterance; wherein adapting said one or more reference templates comprises: performing a dynamic time warp alignment between one of said reference templates and said test utterance; and replacing only a portion of original data within said one reference template with a weighted interpolation of said portion and data within one or more corresponding frames of said test utterance. 14. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein said processing unit is to replace original data within frames of more than one of said reference templates, with a weighted interpolation of said original data and data within one or more corresponding frames of said test utterance.