Audio-visual diarization to identify meeting attendees

A machine-readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of a machine to cause the processor to perform operations to perform a method, the operations comprising:

• receiving information streams on a meeting server from a set of multiple distributed devices included in a meeting;
• receiving audio signals representative of speech by at least two users in at least two of the information streams;
• receiving at least one video signal of at least one user in the information streams;
• associating a specific user with speech in the received audio signals as a function of the received audio and video signals;
• and
• generating a transcript of the meeting with an indication of the specific user associated with the speech.

A device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory device coupled to the processor and having a program stored thereon for execution by the processor to perform operations comprising:
• receiving information streams on a meeting server from a set of multiple distributed devices included in a meeting;
• receiving audio signals representative of speech by at least two users in at least two of the information streams;
• receiving at least one video signal of at least one user in the information streams;
• associating a specific user with speech in the received audio signals as a function of the received audio and video signals;
• and
• generating a transcript of the meeting with an indication of the specific user associated with the speech.