Auraya Establishes North American HQ, Launches ArmorVox

In October of this year, Australian-based Auraya Systems announced the opening of a North American office in Nashua, NH. Today (December 1) the company formally announced the launch of its flagship product line ArmorVox. The new suite of software and services is built around Auraya’s core biometric engine (Release 6.2.2), which supports text-dependent voice biometric authentication over a Web services API.

In the video below, Auraya founder, Clive Summerfield, describes three product attributes that differentiate the current versions of ArmorVox from its competitors.

Auraya Systems Innovations from ArmorVox on Vimeo.

One is “Imposter Maps” which is a mechanism for “bombarding” the system with a variety of utterances from imposters, to help harden the system based on a background database. Second is “Speaker Adaptive Thresholds,” which lets deployers tune the system to treat each, individual voiceprint based on attributes that determine its susceptibility to imposters. Finally, Voice QA refers to techniques to combat the creation of faulty voiceprints during enrollments (for instance, by detecting a noisy environment or noisy line). The same QA techniques are applied during the authentication process in order to prevent faulty sample matching that might lead to false acceptance or false rejection of a submitted utterance.

The product roadmap calls for introduction of a text-independent version of AmorVox to debut in the first quarter of 2012. The new rev will also run on servers running 64-bit processors, interacting with SQL- or mySQL-based databases.