VoicePass™ Technology Brief

VoicePass™ is a voice pattern recognition biometric technology. Used for secure identification, it operates by comparing a person's actual speech to their stored voice pattern. The technology compresses the stored voiceprint and therefore uses a uniquely small amount of memory. VoicePass™ is unparalleled because it is text independent and therefore does not rely on a particular phrase or password.

Markets
Secure Entry
Law Enforcement

Secure Entry

VoicePass™ Security, Authorized Entry and Time and Attendance Applications, VoicePass™ brings a unique and user-friendly biometric to authorized entry solutions for the growing Industrial, Commercial, and Residential security markets. With Graphco's small VoicePass™ Access Terminal (VPAT), a very cost effective new family of solutions is offered for identity verification and authorization, e.g., to open a door, or to enable an auto ignition. Smart database and network tools manage authorizations in multi-site solutions, and in time and attendance applications.

In addition to being text-independent, VoicePass™ is among the few biometrics that can be ported to Smart Cards. Through the use of compression algorithms, Graphco achieves an impressively small memory requirement for the voice file, and can thus port and store the voiceprint on both memory and processor Smart Cards.

VoicePass™ has applications for secure log-ons and authorized access to sensitive files and networks. The familiar password-protected, single-sign-on user authentication process allows users within well defined populations to authenticate their identity in order to access LAN resources in one step. Because users can forget their passwords, the password-protected single sign-on process all too often consumes IT time and resources. The password-protected secure entry process also compromises security because users write down, share, or lose their passwords.

Biometric technology facilitates secure entry single-sign-on without the necessity of remembering and updating passwords. VoicePass™ authenticates a user's identity by creating a template of that individual's voice pattern, and comparing the template to live speech. Because VoicePass™ is text independent, a speaker can say anything when ready to validate his or her identity to gain access to resources. Likewise, instead of password protected methods, ID authentication to the network can take place through a biometric system. Combined with PKI (public-key infrastructure) encryption, VoicePass™ Speaker Recognition system can eliminate the multiple levels of authentication currently necessary to carry out consumer or business-to-business transactions on the Internet.

Law Enforcement

Graphco has recently purchased from GTE, The Bastille™, a Secure Data Center and technology allowing law enforcement officers to share case information nationwide. With secure access to criminal investigative information, and extensive search capabilities, The Bastille™ is a powerful knowledge-based tool supporting law enforcement officers in their tasks. Access to the Bastille's™ services is highly secured using public key infrastructure (PKI) technologies, layered with Bastille's™ FaceTrac and Graphco's VoicePass™ biometric authentication technologies. Secure data communications ensure that only authorized users have access to the Bastille's™ retrieval systems and complete data and records management applications.

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