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Speaker Identification and Authentication

Speaker Identification and Authentication solutions rely on a person's unique voice patterns for identification for security authentication. This technology is changing the way data is protected. See below for the latest news, trends, and solutions on speaker identification and authentications.

Features

The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2024 Speech Industry Awards

Artificial intelligence is now integral to speech technology, a fact reflected by our winning vendors.

2024 Speech Industry Award Winner: ElevenLabs Is Dubbed a Leader in Automatic Speech Translation

The company's first product, AI Dubbing, enables users to automatically translate any speech into up to 20 other languages while maintaining the original speakers' voice qualities.

2024 Speech Industry Award Winner: Kardome Is Making Cars More Driver-Friendly

Cars are becoming better listeners, and one company driving that change is Israeli startup Kardome, whose system can reportedly capture and identify up to six speakers in three seat rows.

2024 Speech Industry Award Winner: Sonde Health Soars for the Air Force

Boston-based Sonde Health has positioned itself as a leader in voice-based health monitoring, and the U.S. military has taken notice.

Industry Voices

Preventing Deepfake Phishing from Leaving Customers on the Hook

Customer service personnel need to be trained to detect and react to deepfake phishing attempts. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Debunking the Most Common Myths in Voice Technology

Demand for voice-enabled devices has skyrocketed during the pandemic, and in the rush to capitalize on it, businesses can easily fall prey to common misconceptions about voice-enabled products. This piece debunks these myths one by one. 

Video: How Biometrics Can Detect Deepfakes

Pindrop Director of Product Marketing Ben Cunningham discusses how liveness detection, synthetic speech detection, and other deep voice biometric technologies can fight the threat deepfakes pose in this clip from a panel at SpeechTEK 2019.

Video: What Is the Minimum Amount of Speech for Authentication?

Pindrop Director of Product Marketing Ben Cunningham discusses best practices for voice authentication in IVR design in this clip from his panel at SpeechTEK 2019.

Columns

The Voice Fraud Threat Is Real

"Everyone needs to be concerned about the technology being used for nefarious purposes."

Voice Cloning Using Artificial Intelligence Is a Pandora’s Box

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times for this powerful technology.

Deepfakes Raise Ethical Questions

Any technology—no matter how well-intentioned—can usually be exploited by those who wish to do us harm.

Speech Is Headed in New Directions

Though still in its very earliest stages, edge computing is being recognized for the transformative role it could play in voice interfaces.

Speaker Identification and Authentication Companies and Suppliers