Encrypted voice recognition.. The new Biometric?

 

 Philips and PerSay have combined encryption software with technology that manages users' "voiceprints" and speech verification.

 According to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, voice biometrics technology has taken a big step forward in strengthening its privacy and security measures with the help of new encryption.

 Voice Biometric Encryption, a process that securely binds a PIN or a cryptographic key to the speaker's voice recognition (not speech recognition) offers newer, better security.

 Says Michiel van der Veen, general manager at Philips priv-ID Biometrics:
“If you start thinking about using sensitive biometric information in all kinds of applications, it means that your biometric identity is exposed in all kinds of commercial solutions and can suddenly become available to a whole lot of people.. The current solutions already respect privacy and adhere to strict guidelines. But when you add privacy solutions like we are offering today, then you basically make privacy inherent."

 

1 Hospital - 100% Speech Recognition

 

 The Hague’s Bronovo hospital in The Netherlands has converted to 100% speech recognition for all departments - it has improved service quality, and profits.

 Says Dr. Pieter Lambregts, who oversaw the speech recognition for the Neurology group in the hospital.."The overall efficiency gain and time saving allowed us to increase our department’s activities by 20% without having to hire additional secretaries.”

 Speech recognition is widely used in the Health Care industries in the Netherlands; SpeechMagic from Philips is the platform for over 80% of the speech recognition systems.

 Wilfred Reinhard, Bronovo’s IT Manager noted “We wanted to realize the country’s first all-speech recognition hospital because we knew how critical the availability of clinical information is for the delivery of care.”.

The entire case study from G2 Speech is available here.