It hasn’t taken long for Nuance to deliver on the promise of integrating PerSay’s product line into its Enterprise Software portfolio. As reported in this press release, the company is pursuing a roadmap that makes it a single source for both text-dependent and text-independent implementations, accompanied by a set of development and administration tools, strong security and encryption resources and the ability to support multiple tenant and multiple application deployments.

The flagship product moving forward will be PerSay’s broadly deployed text-dependent engine, now branded as Nuance VocalPassword(TM). Nuance Verifier(TM), the legacy, text-dependent voice biometric engine is on a roadmap to be integrated into VocalPassword going forward. Where customers are looking for text-independent or “dual engine” approaches, Nuance-branded FreeSpeech(TM) will be brought to bear. To round out the portfolio, Nuance S.P.I.D.(TM) is a platform for speaker identification and analytics that is employed by law enforcement and forensic specialists.

As I noted when Nuance’s acquisition of PerSay took place in December 2010, concentration brings coherence to the marketplace. Nuance has moved quickly to consolidate the product line and make its future direction clear. This is a very positive development as we enter a period when interest in voice biometrics has moved from “what is it?” to “how *exactly* do you implement it?” in the context of, identity proofing, secure customer care and protection of information made accessible through mobile phones.

Executives from Nuance and PerSay will join other technology providers and solutions providers as Opus Research convenes Voice Biometrics Conference – Amsterdam. It will be an assembly of folks from companies that are trialing and implementing voice biometric-based solutions as part of multi-factor authentication solutions, as well as system integrators, risk management, mobility and identity management specialists who are making voice biometrics part of their solutions sets.

For more information on VBC-Amsterdam visit the Conference Web site.

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