3:06 :( youtu.be/L9S4Rf0PzJA Corporations and governments alike are hungry for data on people. In addition to internet behavior records and mobile phone metadata, there is a little-known digital bounty they are after – voiceprints – and they’re harvesting them in their millions. In fact corporate and government databases in the US, Europe and elsewhere contain more than 65 million samples of people’s voices, AP reports, citing interviews with dozens of industry representatives. Voiceprints are increasingly used for user identification, much like people recognize each other by voice. Theres a misconception that the technology we have today is only in the domain of the intelligence services, or the domain of Star Trek, said Paul Burmester, of London-based ValidSoft, a voice biometric vendor. The technology is here today, well-proven and commonly available. Last year the industry brought in revenue of just under $400 million, according to estimates voiced by Dan Miller, an analyst with Opus Research in San Francisco. In 2015, it is expected to skyrocket to between $730 million and $900 million.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:53:29 +0000
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