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.
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Upcoming Webcast: Survey Says “Fix Caller Authentication!”
Join Dan Miller, Sr. Analyst at Opus Research, and Brett Beranek, Solutions Marketing Manager at Nuance, as they delve into the survey data to describe the root cause of caller discontent and propose new methods to overcome authentication speed bumps.
Nuance-Uniphore Partnership to Bring Voice-based Authentication to Banks in India
A partnership between Nuance Communications and Chennai-based will focus on bringing speech recognition and voice biometric-based authentication to mobile banking throughout India.
Sensory Adds Speaker ID to Wake-up Words
Sensory, Inc., takes embedded speech processing another step forward by adding voice biometric-based speaker identification to its TrulyHandsfree(TM) voice activation technology.
ValidSoft and Utiba Have Ambitious Plans for Secure Mobile Commerce
On the eve of Opus Research’s Voice Biometrics Conference, multi-factor security specialist ValidSoft announced that mobile financial services specialist Utiba would be integrating authentication services based on the VALid-4F(R) platform into future solutions.
News from VBC2012: LexisNexis, Agnitio and SpeechPro Augment their Voice Biometric Offers
It was gratifying to note that three members of the voice biometrics community made significant additions to their offerings in the past week.
Webcast Retrospective: Real World Use Cases for Voice Biometrics in the Cloud
With stepped up online and mobile commerce, exposure to Identity Fraud is on the rise. Join Opus Research, Voice Biometrics Group and Voxeo to learn how voice biometric-based solutions can help individuals counteract that trend. In this Webcast, we’ll discuss:… Read More ›
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.
Research Report – Voice Biometric Authentication Best Practices: Overcoming Obstacles to Adoption
As technology providers and system integrators around the world successfully bring their solutions to market, we’re identifying the product attributes, architectures and deployment strategies that define the best practices in layered, multi-factor and risk-based deployments of voice biometrics.
Salmat Makes Big Move to Avaya
In a pre-holiday-rock-your-world moment, Avaya and Salmat jointly announced a multi-million dollar (meaning between $10 and $20 million) deal whereby the Australian contact center outsourcer would replace its Genesys-based platform with “a broad suite of Avaya technology and expertise.”