Agnitio to Provide BATVOX to Grad Students at the University of Colorado-Denver’s NCFM

Graduate students at the University of Colorado-Denver’s School College of Arts and Media will gain practical experience in speaker identification thanks to collaboration between Agnitio and UCD’s National Center for Media Forensics (NCMF). As Catalin Grigoras, Ph.D., Director of the NCMF, explains in a press release, the program will “teach our students the latest developments in the field through building voice databases and applying advanced techniques for statistics and signal processing using Agnitio biometric systems.”

The Masters program is designed for students with an interest in law enforcement to gain hands on experience with state of the art technologies. It is customarily a 16-month program that “includes many hours of hands-on lab work and culminates in a research thesis and an internship in a forensic lab.” According to the agreement between NCMF and Agnitio all students in the program will have an educational license for BATVOX, which is Agnitio’s flagship software suite, comprising a tool for speaker recognition in forensic settings.

BATVOX has been deployed in law enforcement organizations in 25 countries in Europe and Latin America as a tool for building evidence that can be presented in the court system. Emilio Martinez, president and CEO of AGNITIO notes that the collaboration between his company and NCFM “extends the BATVOX user community to the U.S. where interest in the use of forensic speaker recognition is growing rapidly.”