Convenience and security combine to enable access to the service by authorized users and prevent non-authorized access. There is no need to remember passwords, no need to have a password policy and no risk of password loss. The result is a reduction in error and fraud through stronger confidence in the authenticity of official documents like passports and driving licenses.

This, in a few words, is what biometric technologies are supposed to bring to the processes of identification and authentication in the future.

Biometrics is already firmly on the political agenda, and is so well before the tragic events of September 11. Modern economies require increasing levels of mobility on the part of the workforce, and in an emerging networked Information Society, physical identity is increasingly being replaced or supplemented by its digital equivalent. So quite apart from present-day security concerns, these underlying trends drive the need for more and better means of identification. Biometric technologies seem to offer a solution for stronger identification.

(Source: European Commission - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies – Technical Report Series: Biometrics at the Frontiers - Assessing the Impact on Society, February 2005)

Voice biometrics is based on the fact that each individual's voice is unique and different. The technology verifies a person's identity by matching live voice with a digitally stored 'voice print'. It is the one of the least intrusive technologies compared to alternative biometric technologies. This is because it can be used in the absence of the individual.

The technology has several key advantages:

• Voice verification technology does not require specific hardware.
• Voice verification can be used in both telephony and non telephony based applications:
  • Telephony based voice verification typically uses a fixed-line phone.
  • Non-telephony applications such as network access over computers require a sound card and a microphone that are now standard PC components.

(Source: Frost & Sullivan – World Voice Verification Biometrics Markets (December 2005)

VioMetrics is a Voice Biometrics product line.

Cellmax systems, uses the advantages of Voice Verification in order to provide you with enhanced security, whether you are standing a at the door steps of a building or sitting in a boat at the other side of the world and needing to transfer funds into your checking account. The VioMetrics products provide security and reliability in such levels that enable, for example, a larger range of banking activities to be secured by voice.

VioPass is a Password replacement product:

• A password is replaced by a person's voice
• A person is verified or identified by comparing a claimed identity against a stored voice sample.

• A free speech listening Authentication product
• Both Identification and Verification

• VioSearch interoperates with surveillance systems and assists in anti terror and anti crime missions
• A Voice Identification product
• Integration with Communications Interception devices can greatly enhance the effectiveness of anti crime and anti terror actions.