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Biometric authentication platform Fortress Identity has announced the addition of Passive Facial Liveness to its Authentication-as-a-Service platform in an effort to allow its customers to verify the identities of their clients remotely and protect against identity fraud. Passive Facial Liveness — now available on the Fortress Identity platform — uses machine learning and artificial intelligence […]
An AI startup has released a new tool to measure bias in speech recognition systems. The Artie Bias Corpus (ABC) was put together using Mozilla’s Common Voice corpus, and includes 1,712 individual audio clips and transcriptions. Those clips represent 2.4 hours of total audio, and include recordings of people speaking in 17 distinct English accents. […]
Digital security solutions company Uniken, Inc. has been recognized for its REL-ID security platform in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia market (MEASA) by Frost & Sullivan for being a user-friendly and mobile-first way for banks to connect to their omnichannel users. REL-ID takes a unified depth approach in concert with mobile biometric authentication […]
Canadian device-free authentication specialist Plurilock Security Solutions has announced the latest release of its multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution, Plurilock ADAPT, featuring wider integration, and behavioral biometrics via machine learning for enhanced security. ADAPT eliminates the need for one-time passwords (OTP), devices for authentication, mobile phones and other factors that are typical for MFA, while still […]
California-based access control maker Alcatraz AI has announced a new partnership with Intelligent Systems Marketing, Inc. (ISM) that will see its products marketed and sold throughout Northern California, Northern Nevada, and the Rocky Mountain states. Alcatraz’s solution, The Alcatraz Rock, is a frictionless physical access control platform that works with any access control system and […]
API-driven advanced speech and signal processing technologies provider Aculab has announced the latest version of VoiSentry, its voice biometrics system. The latest release includes the introduction of speaker identification capabilities for a range of uses including fraud detection, nuisance call interception, as well as for authentication for frictionless access. VoiSentry’s presentation attack detection (PAD) has […]
Customer experience management company Medallia, Inc. has announced that it has reached an agreement for the acquisition of real-time speech-to-text company Voci Technologies. Medallia’s acquisition will allow it to take Voci’s real-time speech-to-text platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to gain actionable insights from 100% of customer calls, and combine it with its own experience […]
The same kind of machine learning-produced racial biases found in some facial recognition technologies are also in play in speech recognition, according to new research from Stanford Engineering. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers detail findings showing that speech recognition systems are significantly more likely to […]
Google has decided to remove gendered terminology from its Cloud Vision API in an effort to avoid bias on the AI platform. The Cloud Vision API is an object recognition service that automatically identifies and labels items in photos. The API can identify anything from animals to brand logos, making it much easier to search […]
The speech recognition specialist what3words has released a new end-to-end Voice API that was designed to help people figure out where they’re going. To that end, the API will allow users to say any three words, and what3words will provide them the address and GPS coordinates that they’re trying to get to. The Voice API […]
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