The Voice ID&V community was rattled a when researchers at the UAB asserted that systems can be defeated by hackers using “off-the-shelf voice morphing” tools.
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TransUnion Teams with OneVault to Build National Voice Bank in South Africa
TransUnion formed a partnership with South African voice biometric specialist OneVault to operate a national “Voice Bank,” which will be cloud-based resource to support voice-based authentication.
Mexico City and Banco Santander Partner to Provide Voice-based Authentication to Retired Firefighters and Police
19,000 former firefighters and police who are members of the government pension program can use to prove their eligibility to receive transfer payments over the phone, rather than having to appear at a government office or bank branch, under a program called Viva Voz.
Biometric-based Authentication is Front-and-Center on Apple’s iPhone 5s
Apple’s iPhone 5s will be remembered as the personal communications device that got people engaged in serious discussions of the virtues of biometric authentication at scale.
VoiceVault and Microsoft Pump of the Volume; Verify a Billion Authentications per Year
VoiceVault continues to take a great strides in addressing the primary concerns that prospective customers have expressed about the accuracy, reliability and scalability of its voice biometric-based authentication in real world implementations.
Webcast: Best Practices for Voice Biometric Implementations
Opus Research’s report on Voice Biometric Best Practices is raising the profile of multifactor authentication for secure customer care, proof-of-life and password management. Join Pat Carroll, CEO of Validsoft, and Opus Research’s Dan Miller as they provide more details about increased interest from mobile subscribers, financial institutions and government agencies and share what they expect to see in the coming years.