Learn about various authentication and identity strategies for speech-enabled applications, including speech application design, implementation, and business issues surrounding authentication and identity. Learn about new multifactor, multimodal authentication technologies such as speaker verification and SMS tokens. The session delves into how executives see the growing emphasis on identity and how identity management systems impact speech applications in their organizations today and into the future. A brief overview of the AVIOS Forum Security and Identity committee activities is shared.

Adoption of voice biometric speaker verification is growing, but how secure is it? This presentation describes voice biometric approaches, discusses their resistance to replay attacks, compares capabilities and proposes a secure strategy for automated speaker authentication and real-time identity alerts. Important points and challenges in the state-of-art of voice biometrics are discussed.