The invention discloses a real person identity verification method. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring human face picture information provided by an operator; simultaneously acquiring the human face characteristic information of the operator and the mouth shape characteristic information of the operator during reading of preset content; and comparing the human face characteristic information with the human face picture information, comparing the mouth shape characteristic information with preset standard mouth shape characteristic information, if comparison succeeds, confirming that the operator is a real person on the human face picture information, and otherwise, confirming that the operator is not the real person on the human face picture information. According to the method, the identity of the real person is judged by simultaneously acquiring the human face characteristic information and the mouth shape characteristic information without making contact with the operator, so that the popularization of the method is facilitated; comparison of the human face characteristic information is adopted, so that confirmation and auditing on whether the operator is the real person or not are facilitated, the identification accuracy is high, and the accuracy is increased; and comparison of the mouth shape characteristic information is adopted, so that others can be prevented from cracking a human face identification comparison technology by using non-real-person objects, and the security is enhanced. On-site pictures can be stored, and a monitoring function is realized.