Mexico Law Enforcement Agencies Using STC Platform to ID Criminals

Speech Technology Center officially announced its voice biometrics platform is being used by Mexican law enforcement agencies. The voice identification system is used to match an “unknown” voice sample to a database of “known” voiceprints to track down criminals and is being used by more than 250 local police departments in all 32 Mexican states.

The platform can compare short utterances recorded by various recording channels (microphone, land-line, GSM, VOIP) regardless of the gender, age, language or an accent of the speaker.

At last May’s Voice Biometrics Conference, Speech Technology Center outlined the Mexican deployment and described it as the largest known speaker identification project to date. For the last seven years, STC has been working with Mexican law enforcement agencies in supplying forensic technologies and the addition of voice biometrics for speaker identification seemed a logical extension.

As mentioned in today’s announcement, STC has high hopes for the technology: “Growing demand for voice biometrics in general and voice-based identification in particular signals an emergence of a new market segment with a potential to grow to a [half billion dollar] industry.”