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Voxeo and Trade Harbor Announce Partnership for Voice Biometric Authentication

By Dan Miller on April 23, 2009

tradeharbor_logo Voice biometric-based authentication and security took one step deeper into ‘The Cloud’ as Voxeo and Trade Harbor announced a partnership. Voxeo is a provider of both premises-based and hosted platforms for standards-based interactive voice response (IVR) applications. Trade Harbor launched its efforts to expand the reach of voice-based authentication using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model back in 1999. The two companies are joining forces at a time that Opus Research believes will be looked back on as an inflection point in the adoption voiceprints for customer-facing services offered over the phone

Biometric Use Cases: Choosing the Right Biometric for the Job

By Derek Top on November 15, 2005

Featured Research Speaker Verification has received short shrift from security mavens, largely because it has been ill-positioned by the speech processing community and has been subject to misplaced concern over its relative “strength” compared with more expensive, hardware-intensive alternatives. In… Read More ›

Fundamentals of Speaker Verification and Biometric-Based Authentication

By Derek Top on August 15, 2005

Featured Research Classifying speech recognition and Speaker Verification as technical cousins has done nothing to further the market development for either technology. Speaker Verification is more than an enhancement to ‘Voice Self-Service’ applications. It is an extension of an organization’s… Read More ›