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• n  biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice
  voiceprints are uniquely characteristic of individual speakers

• Since he developed the voiceprint system at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1962, Kersta has worked with law enforcement agencies on more than 100 cases involving voice .
• The trouble is most phones can dial only numbers you've already matched to a voiceprint, and if you don't say it exactly the same way every time, the phone can get confused.
• Ernest Nash, Michigan State Police expert, testified at Topa's trial in 1973 that the voiceprint of the telephone confession matched Topa's, not Ferretti's; he also argued that .

News & Articles

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• Google Irks Developers with Ruling on Facial-Recognition Apps
  Developers complain that by banning facial recognition for Glass, Google is hindering doctors, police, and others. The popular rap on Google Glass facial-recognition technology is that it’s a tool for creeps and stalkers. But Google’s decision to ban both facial-recognition and voiceprint technology from its high-tech eyewear also puts the brakes on promising services, like those that could help ...
  June 10, 2013 - Technology Review