Voice biometrics can be an effective way to combat imposters who use phone-based channels to perpetrate identity theft and “merchant fraud.”
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The Conversational Cloud: Beyond the Hosted Contact Center
Customer care and self-service strategies now leverage Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to foster simple, speedy task completion and customer empowerment.
Using Voice Biometrics for Strong Authentication and Risk Reduction
This era of self-service, cloud computing and Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) has significantly accelerated the occurrence of fraudulent access, data breaches and identity theft. Hackers and fraudsters have more avenues of ingress to steal credentials and have their way with enterprise networks and data. Voice and multi-factor authentication offer an effective alternative to the prevailing, often ineffective methods and practices.
Voice Biometrics: Changing the Authentication Paradigm
Featured Research Financial institutions can reap significant financial gains by using voiceprints to authenticate through the phone channel. By our calculations, a large money center bank will see over $100 million in economic benefit from reducing fraud loss in the… Read More ›
Voice Biometrics Vendor Survey and “Intelliview” Mid-Year Edition (2013)
The market for voice biometrics-based solutions has matured significantly in the past year. In this document Opus Research compares the products and strategic position of a select group of solution providers and presents structured analysis that should benefit decision makers planning to introduce speaker verification in their contact centers or on mobile devices or networks.
Enterprise Readiness Series: The Case for Passive, Voice-Based Authentication
Featured Research Today’s customer authentication methods are from another age. Opus Research interviewed security and customer care professionals in Global 100 companies to learn about their perception and attitudes toward passive authentication of customers using voice. Respondents provided insights into… Read More ›
Research Report: 5 Rules for Survival in the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) Era
Supporting BYOD is just a starting point for a whole range of services and capabilities that IT departments around the world can support as they nurture new applications that make network reliability, security and performance paramount.
Research Report: Personal Virtual Assistants: Primer and Planning Guide
We used to laugh at the idea of “the talking toaster” when thinking about the gratuitous addition of a speech-based interface to household appliances, consumer electronics, self-service kiosks or even ATMs. Now the machines laugh at us, as improvements in natural language understanding, artificial intelligence and text-to-speech rendering make phones, tablets, computers and (yes) household appliances more conversational, human-like and responsive to spoken input.
Research Report: Voice Biometrics Vendor Survey and “IntelliView” 2012
The market for voice biometrics-based solutions has matured significantly in the past year. In this document Opus Research compares the products and strategic position of a select group of solution providers and presents structured analysis that should benefit decision makers planning to introduce speaker verification in their contact centers or on mobile devices or networks.
Survey Results – Caller Authentication: Likes, Dislikes and Preferences
In May 2012 Opus Research, in conjunction with Nuance Communications, commissioned Coleman-Parkes Associates to survey 1,000 individuals who had recently used their telephone for customer care. They described the shortcomings of present systems for caller authentication and provided clues that should be used in designing secure and convenient customer care in the future.