Voice biometrics promise online banking safety

A SPIN OFF of the University of Madrid presented a biometric voice verification product here at the conference today.

Agnitio already sells its products to a wide range of police forces and intelligence agencies worldwide and wants to extend its sales range to the online banking, finance and corporation sectors.

The benefits of using voice over iris or fingerprint recognition is you don't need additional hardware, claimed Agnitio CEO Emilio Martinez-Gutierrez.

You can also use it with your mobile phone, he said.

The system doesn't use phonetic or linguistic technology but biometric technology, he said. Its Batvox biometric voice verification is used in forensic labs reports presented to courts in many European countries, he said.

The cops also use another Agnitio product, ASIS, which integrates criminal's voice records with their current databases and with DNA records.

The system defeats recording frauds for online systems by randomly generating numbers which callers need to speak. That's then matched to the existing voice pattern.

The firm licenses its products according to the number of seats, or in the case of the police forces, with long term permanent licences.

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