Barclays to roll out biometric voice authentication

[Legal Beagles]

Barclays is to introduce voice recognition for users of its telephone banking service. In a new effort to move away from the use of passwords, the voice recognition system will verify customers based on their speech patterns and will be offered initially to Barclay’s Wealth customers, and then to its 12 million customers early next […]

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Re: Barclays to roll out biometric voice authentication

Nice to know they have the money to waste:tung:

[Crazy council]

Re: Barclays to roll out biometric voice authentication

eerrrrm, biometrics, yes, agree, using speech as a passwords. nnoooppe. There is already software " voice conversion ", that could bypass this. most modern high end pcs can handel it live.

will be offered initially to Barclay’s Wealth customers

whooo, these a worthwhile target,, i bet 1000nds of 419ers are collecting voice samples, HSBC did a good one years ago, a little device that you push that generates a number.. probably as close to uncrackable as we will get without proper biometrics. ( eyes, prints, dna )