Squawk Box - July 10, 2008 - Voice Biometrics - Special Guest: David Standig, VoiceVerified.com - Calliflower Online Meetings and Conference Call Services by iotum

Thu, Jul 10, at 11:00 AM
(GMT -05:00), America - Detroit
Duration:	1 hour

Do you remember the 1992 movie "Sneakers" with the phrase "My voice is my password"? Voice "biometrics" has come a long way since those days and today our special guest, David Standig of VoiceVerified.com, will talk about the current state of the industry and technology and also about what VoiceVerified brings to the picture. More info at:

http://www.voiceverified.com/

Full Disclosure: VoiceVerified does have a business relationship with my employer, Voxeo, which I outlined in the blog post linked below. Regardless of the business affiliation, I just think their technology is cool and is something worth talking about.

http://blogs.voxeo.com/voxeotalks/2008/04/02/voiceverified-brings-my-voice-is-my-password-voice-verification-to-voxeos-platform/

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M Dan York	Moshe Maeir	Jeanette Fisher	David Edward Brown	Ian F. Hood
William Volk	Jonathan Jensen	Sandro Gauci	Arshad Merali	Warren Bent
Guest 1	Carolyn Smith	Ed Smith	Guest 2	James Body

Ian F. Hood said:

Jul 10, 11:41 AM (GMT -05:00)

thanks Dan

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:37 AM (GMT -05:00)

Thanks Dan, Patrick and David; a very interesting topic this morning.

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:33 AM (GMT -05:00)

(not Skype out; I mean a Skype hosted interface on their server)

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:32 AM (GMT -05:00)

Skype compatible over the web?

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:29 AM (GMT -05:00)

thanks

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:29 AM (GMT -05:00)

David, I'm going to be asking that.

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:28 AM (GMT -05:00)

can we get a rough idea of price?

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:24 AM (GMT -05:00)

Sandro - I'll ask that question

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:23 AM (GMT -05:00)

Feel free to raise your hand and I'm glad to unmute you.

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:23 AM (GMT -05:00)

thanks Dan that's helping

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:22 AM (GMT -05:00)

I've muted all just to try to kill some of the background noise that was on there.

William Volk said:

Jul 10, 11:20 AM (GMT -05:00)

This would be excellent for mobile services in a hands-free environment

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:20 AM (GMT -05:00)

Ed - good questions, I'll ask

Ed Smith said:

Jul 10, 11:19 AM (GMT -05:00)

In other words, is one voice authentication solution any better than another?

Sandro Gauci said:

Jul 10, 11:19 AM (GMT -05:00)

My favorite question when it comes to biometrics. As you mention, you're relying on proprietary solution to protect against recorded voice. That will be broken at some point in time. What do you do when it is broken? i.e. people can change their password but cannot change their voice easily

Ed Smith said:

Jul 10, 11:18 AM (GMT -05:00)

So what makes VoiceVerified better than the others in this space?

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:16 AM (GMT -05:00)

many complex passwords discriminates against us older folks...:-)

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:15 AM (GMT -05:00)

:-)

James Body said:

Jul 10, 11:14 AM (GMT -05:00)

Bit tough for numerically dyslexic individuals..... (-;

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:13 AM (GMT -05:00)

numbers test is easy to understand

James Body said:

Jul 10, 11:12 AM (GMT -05:00)

I can think of a number of simple tests to prove 'liveness'

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:12 AM (GMT -05:00)

Sandro - I'll ask

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:11 AM (GMT -05:00)

good question James

James Body said:

Jul 10, 11:11 AM (GMT -05:00)

I would like to hear how the voice biometrics recognition copes with disrtion introduced by different codecs and transcoding disrtion

Sandro Gauci said:

Jul 10, 11:11 AM (GMT -05:00)

You mention that the protection against recorded voice is proprietary and kind of secret. I came over here to learn more about that.. could you guys talk more about it?

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:11 AM (GMT -05:00)

it sounds like someones typing is overriding the speaker

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:11 AM (GMT -05:00)

I'll ask about that

David Edward Brown said:

Jul 10, 11:10 AM (GMT -05:00)

I would like to hear more about how the "liveness" test works (without leaking an proprietary info)

James Body said:

Jul 10, 11:10 AM (GMT -05:00)

I think that the possibility of using voice biometrics as an authentication method is hugely exciting - but in order to be a viable proposition it must be reliable AND affordable/cost-effective

James Body said:

Jul 10, 11:07 AM (GMT -05:00)

CDMA cell - judging from the background mush

Dan York said:

Jul 10, 11:06 AM (GMT -05:00)

James - the guests are on a speaker phone over a cell phone.

James Body said:

Jul 10, 11:05 AM (GMT -05:00)

Someone in a car?

Jonathan Jensen said:

Jul 10, 11:05 AM (GMT -05:00)

The late James Body - I hope not!

Ian F. Hood said:

Jul 10, 11:05 AM (GMT -05:00)

just starting

James Body said:

Jul 10, 11:04 AM (GMT -05:00)

Late. . . . .

William Volk said:

Jul 10, 11:04 AM (GMT -05:00)

Penn Alumni here....

William Volk said:

Jul 10, 10:51 AM (GMT -05:00)

Looks like there's been a significant revision in Calliflower.

Dan York said:

Jul 09, 04:35 PM (GMT -05:00)

Clickable URL: http://www.voiceverified.com/

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