A speaker identifying apparatus includes: a module for performing a
principal component analysis on predetermined vocal tract geometrical
parameters of a plurality of speakers and calculating an average and
principal component vectors representing speaker-dependent variation; a
module for performing acoustic analysis on the speech data being uttered
for each of the speakers to calculate cepstrum coefficients; a module for
calculating principal component coefficients for approximating the vocal
tract geometrical parameter of each of the plurality of speakers by a
linear sum of principal component coefficients; a module for determining,
by multiple regression analysis, a coefficient sequence for estimating
principal component coefficients by a linear sum of the plurality of
prescribed features, for each of the plurality of speakers; a module for
calculating a plurality of features from speech data of the speaker to be
identified, and estimating principal component coefficients for
calculating the vocal tract geometrical parameter of the speaker to be
identified, by a linear sum obtained by applying the coefficient sequence
calculated by the regression analyzing module; and a module for
identifying said speaker to be identified, by comparing the estimated
principal component coefficients with the principal component
coefficients calculated for each of the plurality of speakers by the
principal component coefficient calculating module.