Say there are 3 people in the room. Each of them have a unique voice timbre. I want to recognize people by their timbre and know who's speaking.
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The task of taking a long contiguous audio recording and splitting it up in chunks in which only one speaker is speaking - without any prior knowledge about the voice characteristics of each speaker - is called "Speaker diarization". You can find links to research code on the wikipedia page.
If you have prior recordings of each voice, and would rather do classification, this is a slightly different problem (Speaker recognition or Speaker identification). Software tools for that are available here (note that general purposes speech recognition packages like Sphinx or HTK are flexible enough to be coaxed into doing that).
answered Aug 15, 2012 at 9:28
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$\begingroup$ Wow! Thanks for such an extensive answer. I'm interested in doing this live, basically detecting when and who is speaking and maybe writing that to a separate file, or just writing to log when and who spoke. $\endgroup$– DmitryCommented Aug 15, 2012 at 15:58
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$\begingroup$ Did you find any library which works in real time. I came across IBM Watson Speech Recognition API, but it is not open source. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 26, 2019 at 8:52