ID R&D has released a survey that suggests that the American public may have too much faith in its anti-spoofing capabilities. The survey found that 36 percent of Americans were confident that they could distinguish a real human voice from a computer generated fake. Of course, the fact that Americans believe they could tell the…
Having only been founded in 2016, ID R&D has enjoyed a rapidly rising profile in the biometrics industry over the last few years, with the company continuing to gain momentum over the course of 2019. The New York-based company kicked off the year by opening a new office in Silicon Valley, and it went on…
ID R&D’s voice liveness detection technology has bested the competition in the 2019 Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures (ASVspoof) Challenge. The biannual industry challenge evaluates solutions based on their ability to distinguish real speech from false speech that has been generated using Text-to-Speech or voice conversion technology. ID R&D’s solution proved to be the…
The Southeast Asian software provider Innov8tif has integrated ID R&D’s anti-spoofing technology into its customer onboarding platform. Innov8tif will specifically be making use of ID R&D’s IDLive Face, which will provide passive liveness detection for the OkayFace solution. OkayFace is part of Innov8tif’s EMAS eKYC onboarding platform, which combines facial recognition with document reading to…
ID R&D President Alexey Khitrov is the newest member of the Forbes Technology Council. Khitrov was asked to join the exclusive group based on his experience and past achievements. Like all Forbes Councils, the Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only gathering of executives who have demonstrated the ability to grow a business. Members are also…
ID R&D has announced a new biometric authentication system based on facial recognition that is entirely passive, requiring no special effort from the end user. Called IDLive Face, the solution is designed for Android or iOS apps, or for web-based apps. Users’ faces are scanned as they use the apps, and their biometrics are matched…
ID R&D has released the latest iteration of its voice recognition platform. IDVoice version 2.7 is ten times faster than its predecessor, and includes utility features that make it easier to deploy across multiple voice channels. The latter is particularly noteworthy insofar as it simplifies the biometric enrollment and authentication process for enterprise-level customers. Other…
ID R&D has found a new customer for its Acoustic Event Detection technology, which will be integrated into Wavio’s SoundAI platform. First announced back in March, Acoustic Event Detection allows any device with a microphone to detect and identify a range of ambient sounds, including sirens, barking dogs, breaking glass, and calls for help. …
“[ID R&D’s] participation in the program will allow it to launch a cloud service through which other developers will be able to take advantage of its solutions.” ID R&D has been accepted into Microsoft’s IoT & AI Insider Labs program, the company has announced. IoT & AI Insider Labs is essentially aimed at accelerating the development…
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FindBiometrics reported live from Money20/20 in Las Vegas this week, where a strong sense of collaboration energized the substantial biometrics presence. Among the week’s major partnership announcements one stood out as particularly enlightening: voice and behavioral biometrics company ID R&D revealed that it is providing the voice recognition tech behind the PhiVox component of FacePhi’s…
FacePhi has just announced the first big integration for its newly launched inPhinite security platform. ID R&D‘s voice recognition technology is going to be used to help authenticate FacePhi’s millions of end users. Announced just a couple of weeks ago, inPhinite is a new multimodal platform built around Selphi, the selfie-based authentication system that has…
FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill recently spoke with Konstantin Simonchik, Chief Science Officer, ID R&D. The interview begins with some background on the biometrics company, which focuses largely on voice, speech, and behavioral recognition technology. The conversation moves to the various drivers causing the current boom in voice and speech recognition, and Simonchik further elaborates on…
“John’s deep biometrics experience and knowledge will be invaluable as we reach new growth milestones,” -Alexey Khitrov, CEO, ID R&D ID R&D has a new Vice President of Sales. John Amein comes to the company from Voice Biometrics Group, an Orlando-based organization that he headed as President from January of 2016 to August of this…
“The system is compatible with major messaging platforms including WhatsApp, Skype, Slack, Telegram, and Signal…” ID R&D has unveiled a new passive authentication system for digital messaging services. Called SafeMessage, the AI-driven solution uses a number of mechanisms to verify a registered user, including behavioral biometrics and facial and voice recognition, all requiring only one…
“What’s more, the system is highly accurate, offering an Equal Error Rate of 0.3 percent on microphones and 0.6 percent for speech collected through a telephone.” ID R&D has upgraded IDVoice, its voice recognition system. The company says that IDVoice can now identify a speaker within one to two seconds of natural speech, making it…