Elephant Talk launches ValidSoft voice-biometric solution for secure authentication

Schipol, The Netherlands-based Elephant Talk Communications, Inc., a provider of business software and services to the telecommunications and financial services industries, is today launching VALid-SVP (Speaker Verification Platform), a voice biometric technology to improve secure authentication.

This solution is a product of the R&D function of ValidSoft, an ETAK subsidiary based in Ireland. ValidSoft is a supplier of fraud prevention, authentication, and transaction verification solutions with a significant investment in Intellectual Property.

“VALid-SVP is our exclusive, bundled, text dependent and text independent biometric voice verification technology, which competes very favorably with other leading Voice Biometrics products,” stated Patrick Carroll, CEO of ValidSoft.

ValidSoft’s technology and IP is 100% owned by ValidSoft and is state-of-the-art for its worldwide capability in fraud prevention and authentication. The origin of the product is in the Alize research project funded by the European Union. The VALid-SVP technology solution is based on a completely modular architecture that allows organizations to easily integrate voice verification, including third-party engines into a broader authentication framework. VALid-SVP supports text-dependent and text-independent voice verification models, all deliverable over multiple telecommunications channels. This technology provides business entities with added value in the form of numerous extensions such as a secure voice print database manager, an enrollment module with control of voice print quality, and a real-time and interactive extension for smooth operation.

Carroll stated that “We just recently participated favorably for the first time in the National Institute of Standard Technology (NIST) speaker recognition evaluations, an important event for the voice biometrics research community.”

He added that “The ongoing maturity of the voice biometric market will result in the greater uptake of solutions that seamlessly integrate voice biometrics for remote verification. As advanced, comprehensive fraud solutions have been developed, integrating voice biometrics into broader anti-fraud systems has become more efficient, affordable and reliable. Voice can now easily be used to expedite the process of remotely authenticating customers. Voice can be used as an extra authenticator, seamlessly and automatically backed up with traditional factors, such as knowledge data, to deliver a very strong authentication and transaction verification process.”