SpeechXRays. Physicists from the National Research and Development Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering "Horia Hulubei" (IFIN - HH), managed to develop the first voice biometric security system, which works in the Romanian language. You probably already know that Google has something similar for English on Pixel phones, but SpeechXRays is developed in Romania, and is thought to work in Romanian, something we won't see from phone manufacturers too soon.
The SpeechXRays project for the development of this voice biometric authentication system in the Romanian language was financed by the European Union with 5 million euros, and is the result of collaboration with researchers from France and Greece. The researchers from IFIN claim that this biometric security system is more secure than fingerprint or iris scanning, because it recognizes not only the voice, but also the way words are spoken, but it is not limited to that.
SpeechXRays brings voice biometric authentication in Romanian as well
The researchers claim that SpeechXRays is able to distinguish between a recording and a person's natural voice, just as Face ID, for example, can distinguish between a face and a mask. Practically, the solution found by the researchers is announced as an extremely interesting one, especially since we are talking about a biometric security system through which we can have access to the data from the phones even without actually interacting with them, but you have probably seen how everything works in other languages.
The SpeechXRays project aims to come to the market with a new biometric authentication solution, multimodal, which uses the user's voice and image for its authentication on any electronic system, on any digital system. Voice biometrics is not focused on what a user says, but on how they say it. It's a voice password, but it's unique and depends a lot on the subject. From our point of view, it is much safer for an extremely simple reason: it is not transmissible. Our system is robust enough to distinguish between recording and live voice.
For years and years we have been waiting for Siri in Romanian, for example, and the wait continues for Google Assistant, but SpeechXRays at least brings biometric voice authentication in Romanian as well. Although what the Romanian researchers have achieved sounds great for smartphone users, the SpeechXRays applications will be different, and in Android and iOS we will not soon see support for voice biometric authentication in the Romanian language, unfortunately.
