Voice Biometrics: The Future of Identification
Voice Biometrics: An Overview Voice biometrics is the science and technology of using a person's voice as a unique identifier for various purposes, such as authentication, identification, and verification. Voice biometrics relies on the fact that human voice characteristics are influenced by both physiological and behavioural factors, such as the shape and size of the vocal tract, the pitch and tone of the voice, and the speaking style and accent. By extracting and analyzing these features from a voice sample, voice biometrics can create a voiceprint that represents the speaker's identity. Voice biometrics has many applications in different domains, such as: Telephone and Internet transactions: Voice biometrics can be used to verify the identity of a caller or a user who wants to access a service or a system over the phone or the Internet. For example, voice biometrics can be used to authenticate customers who want to make a payment, check their account balance, or change their...