My Voice is My Password
I love the James Bond series. Anyway, I’ll love any movie or TV series as long as it is about secret agents. I love the mystery, action, and the technology shown. They show the latest cars and gadgets. I even remember that for highly valued items, it is usually protected by voice passwords.
I’ve researched on this topic and found out that speech recognition technology is already used widespread nowadays. It can either be computer speech recognition which means the spoken words are translated to machine readable input or speaker recognition which is identifying the person speaking which is often used for voice password. This is what they usually call voice biometrics. It provides multifactor authentication of an individual’s identity through the unique properties of an individual’s voice.
It is also far more superior that the IVR software because it can handle complex tasks all at once. Callers can easily select from long list like cities and stocks so it is more user-friendly. This is the reason why this is the technology employed for high volume telephone transactions and inquiries.
It’s really how amazing how technology makes life easier. 
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August 29th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
In the movies, using a voice stamp rather than a password to verify one’s identity is thought of as sleek and exciting. In real life, using voice verification is simply a more secure way to handle transactions associated with personal information – especially when considering the option of pins and passwords as the alternative. Base on a study conducted for Nuance Communications by Harris research, 61% of consumers feel that voice verification is a secure form of identity verification for phone access to customer service data while 83% agree that institutions should require different forms of identity verification based on the types of transactions.
-Chuck Buffum, VP of Caller Authentication, Nuance (http://www.nuance.com/care/overview/biometrics.asp)