• DocumentCode
    749357
  • Title

    Anlysis - LOOK WHO´S TALKING

  • Author

    Conti, Juan Pablo

  • Volume
    2
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    24
  • Lastpage
    25
  • Abstract
    There is a growing trend in the financial world for criminals to focus their efforts on the telephone banking channel. For this reason, many financial institutions have begun to fortify their security system by incorporating biometric identification. Just as there are no two identical faces, fingerprints or irises in the world, so there aren´t two human voices alike. And since phones already come equipped with the appropriate capture device for voice input, voice biometrics are set to provide the ease of implementation and low costs required for mass-market deployments. When a customer rings the bank, his/her true identity can automatically be verified through a series of sophisticated algorithms that are used to compare his voice with a corresponding reference voiceprint
  • Keywords
    banking; biometrics (access control); call centres; fraud; security of data; speaker recognition; ABN AMRO; Belgium; Dexia; Netherlands; biometric identification; call centre security; financial institutions; telephone banking; voice biometrics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering & Technology
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1750-9637
  • Type

    jour

  • Filename
    4135928