Voice, laughter
Voix, rire
Voice authentication, also known as “speaker verification”, is defined as the automated verification of a person’s claimed identity, based on unique characteristics of their voice.
La reconnaissance de la voix est définie comme étant la vérification automatique de l'identité de la personne basée sur les caractéristiques de sa voix.
A simple microphone is enough to record the voice, then most of the algorithm are analysing the voice spectrum.
Un simple microphone est suffisant pour enregistrer la voix, ensuite la plupart des algorithmes effectuent une analyse du spectre de la voix.
Do not confuse speaker/voice recognition with speech recognition. Speech recognition is the recognition of what you are saying, and not who you are.
Ne pas confondre la reconnaissance de la voix et la reconnaissance vocale, qui consiste à comprendre ce que vous dites, et non reconnaître qui vous êtes.
Voice and speech can be combined to get a better system :
La reconnaissance de la voix et la reconnaissance vocale peuvent être avantageusement combinées :
Conversational Biometrics at IBM
Laughter / Rire
The Monash University (Melbourne) has also tried to perform laughter recognition, which is a "side-effect" of the SoundHunter software. For the moment, the laughter-recognition software is rather crude and cannot accurately distinguish between different people.
L'université de Monash (Melbourne) a également essayé la reconnaissance par le rire, mais pour l'instant ce n'est qu'un "effet de bord" de leur software SoundHunter, qui est plutôt simpliste et ne peut pas encore reconnaître les gens avec précision.
- New Scientist article
- Monash University homepage but there is nothing on their website (Jan 2004)
Aliveness detection
- (2017 Nov) Hearing Your Voice is Not Enough: An Articulatory Gesture Based Liveness Detection for Voice Authentication / Linghan Zhang & al. This is using Doppler effect, sending a sonar pulse to the mouth, and hearing the sound reflection. Could be a kind of aliveness detection.
Commercial products
Many companies are offering some voice recognition products. You will find some links below, as well as some links to some lists.
De nombreuses compagnies offrent des produits basés sur la reconnaissance de la voix. Vous en trouverez quelques-unes ci-dessous, ainsi que des liens vers d'autres listes.
- Speech technology hyperlinks page at the CMU very good list of speech recognition links (+649 links!), good start for a search.
- Anovea (USA)
- Authentify (voice biometric demo)
- BI Inc. (USA) -BI VoiceID from Voicevault-
- CAVE (web-based speaker recognition demo)
- Configate (USA/Israel)
- Diaphonics "Advanced authentication with voice biometrics"
- Ensigma Technologies (UK)
- Equivox (UK) -VOXitSecure-
- Graphco Holdings (USA) -VoicePass-
- HumanScan (Germany) (took BioID assets, formerly DCS) -BioID, fuses facial, lip and speaker-
- Intervoice (USA) -Omvia Identifier-
- Loquendo (Italy, Telecom Italia)
- Nuance (USA) -Verifier 3.0 engine-
- QVoice biometrics (Star Trek)
- OTG Ottawa Telephony Group (Canada)
- Patni -VoiceSafe-
- Perceive Solutions Inc. (Canada) -RAV-
- Persay (Israel/USA) -FreeSpeech, VocalPassword-
- ScanSoft (USA, have purchased SpeechWorks, which bought SpeakEZ from T-Netix) -SpeechSecure-
- Securivox (UK)
- Sensory (USA) -Voice Lock-
- SentryCom (Israel) -Enterprise voice Authentication Platform-
- Sonotech corp. (Tacscan)
- Speech Technology Center (Russia) -Voice Key-
- TradeHarbor (USA) -Voice Signature Service-
- VeriVoice (USA) "the sound barrier" -VeriVoice Security Lock-
- Voice Security Systems "the voice of choice"
- Voice.Trust (Germany)
- Voice Vantage "the trusted voice for voiceprint authentication technologies"
- VoiceVault (Ireland, Buytel)
- VoiceVerified® (USA)
- VoxAccess (Switzerland) -VOX0Verif-
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