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Summerfield spoke recently at the Voice Biometrics Conference in Washington, DC, an event organized by Opus Research and billed as the “first voice biometrics conference in the world,” and Ars was there to bring back a front-line report on the state of the technology from those who are developing it.

Voice verification is here at last and poised to grow rapidly, but it’s still a small market. All forms of biometric identification generated $2 billion of revenue in 2006, according to Dan Miller, a senior analyst at Opus Research—and half of that money went to fingerprint scanning. But voice, due to particular passages we’ve been discussing, has already won over ABN AMRO, Bell Canada, Ameritrade, the Australian government, Volkswagen Financial Services, and (of all things) the US Department of Agriculture.

From the article, “Voice biometrics: coming to a security system near you”, by Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, May 13, 2007

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