Stop the Bad Guys from Messing Up with Your Customers’ Data with Voice Biometrics

A year ago, organizations across the globe were reluctant and sulked about the idea of working from home; but now the COVID-19 pandemic has made everyone adapt to a work-from-home lifestyle. Along the same vein, every organization is moving towards everything that’s “contactless.” From banks to telecom to corporates, everybody wants a secure channel of communication, digital transactions, and business conversations without worrying about privacy and security breach. Today, Voice biometrics technology provides both contactless and frictionless authentication mediums for IVR call verification, secure remote logins, govt agencies, contact centers, and telecom companies. With the help of anti-spoofing layering, these new-age biometrics channels detect synthetic voice speech and create?fraud defense within a few seconds of a call.?

What?is?Voice Biometrics? ?

Voice Biometrics is a part of AI-based speech recognition technology that uses voice imprints to authenticate an individual’s identity. Various vocal features and attributes such as pronunciation, pitch, tone, dialect, and style of speech are analyzed before completing the verification/authentication?process?for users. ?

Key Findings ?

• As per?Emergen Research, the Voice Biometrics market is projected to rise with a CAGR of 23.6% and reach USD 4.90 Billion by 2027?
• According to Fortunly, the cost of cyberattacks in the banking industry reached $18.3 million annually per company
• Another report published by?Fortunly, states that the finance domain accounts for 14% of all data breaches. In 47% of all financial data breaches, the victim is always a bank

Doesn’t it depict the possibilities of high adoption rates?of Voice Biometrics in the years to come??

How to pick the right Voice Biometrics technology?partner? ?

While every technology partner claims to have the best biometrics solutions and products, it is crucial to chalk out a few criteria before deciding who sells the best technology. Remember, it is not just about buying cost-effective solutions, but more importantly, how Voice Biometrics technology solutions can address some of your organization’s underlying security challenges.

Some of the critical factors to consider before picking your speech recognition partner are ease of integration, deployment options, flexibility, reliability, scalability, security robustness, accuracy, anti-spoofing layers, resilience, and?last but not the least?cost-effectiveness?of the solutions.

Reasons to implement Voice Biometrics

• Security: Unlike other authentication methods involving passwords that can be compromised, a person’s voiceprint cannot be forged as it is created by analyzing various parameters such as pronunciation, dialect, speed of speech, accent, and diction. Even if fraudsters try to crack the voiceprint with speech synthesis or recorded voice, they cannot spoof the anti-spoofing layers?of voice?biometrics systems ?
• Multi-channel integration-The ease of integration of Voice Biometrics across various platforms like WhatsApp, IVR, website makes it an excellent choice for financial enterprises. Irrespective of the integration platform, the Voice Biometrics solution is a?seamless?fit for cross-channel engagement. This speech technology provides seamless and frictionless verification and offers consistent multi-channel security?-all?at the same time
• Privacy: It turns out?not?many customers are?happy?to share specific personal details like maiden’s name, first job, pet’s name, etc., even for security questions during password reset requests.??Avivah Litan,?one of Gartner’s fraud analysts, said that call center staff’s use of external security questions accounted for a 15 to 20 percent failure rate for one financial institution. Besides, rather than memorizing?their?passwords?or keeping it saved in?their?phones, customers can carry out the verification process within?a few seconds of smooth conversation in?a?voice biometrics?system
• Cost optimization: In today’s world, the contact centers of financial institutions and banks receive enormous customer calls every month with queries about bill payments, password resets, and document verification. With such bombarding situations, each customer rep needs to spend time with each caller, leading to increased AHTs-most of the time. However, AI-enabled voice biometrics solutions can eliminate lengthy steps involved in verification processes, and save costs spent on each customer. In parallel, agents can focus on other complex issues without compromising on customer experience

What features should you expect from a Voice Biometrics solution??

While many organizations consider convenience, cost, and familiarity while selecting the best voice recognition technology, try looking at the following features as well:

• Speech Independent:?Should recognize unique voice patterns, phrases, accents
• Noise tolerant, secure, and accurate: Performs real-time speech analytics and scans over 140+ features of the human voice, making verification highly accurate and fool-proof
• Flexible Integration Options: Should offer seamless integration across all devices and CRM systems
• Hassle-free deployment: Accessible on various deployment channels and platforms, including in-app payments
• Speech Quality Tracking: Detects noise levels and speech quality for better processing
• Faster Voice Recognition Identification: Recognizes and enrolls voice instantly within a few seconds
• Strong Anti-spoofing layer: Should have strong anti-spoofing verification technology to detect recording or synthesized speech/voice

Now, pick the one that suits your requirements the best!

The Way Forward

Undeniably, financial fraud has given severe headaches to Information Security Officers worldwide. Moreover, with human agents’ involvement in security-sensitive processes, there’s always a loophole from where fraudsters can enter and trigger data breaches. With knowledge-based authentication nearing to become obsolete, voice biometrics solutions will help financial institutions sail through security turbulences smoothly. Having said that, financial enterprises that have the best technology partner with avant-garde speech recognition solutions will not face any hassle while ramping up their security and fraud prevention strategies and will stay relevant and important for their customers even during economic meltdowns.

Ready to build robust security in your authentication gateways?

Our Voice Biometrics solution,?armour365?is engineered to execute effortless end-to-end authentication and fraud prevention by verifying customers’ identity with the voice within seconds.

To see voice biometrics in action book a?demo with our team

First published on https://www.gnani.ai/resources/blog/ by our staff writer Karishma Borkakoty.