Showing posts with label internet voice lock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet voice lock. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

internet voice lock

     One of these days internet security may mean showing your thumbprint to your computer--or talking to it. Most people have probably been asked for a thumbprint at some time. Fewer have been asked to permit their voices to be recorded--to make what was once called a voice lock. My mom worked in a building that had these--years ago, in the 1970's. In theory the voice lock would open only to the sound of the same voice. It worked very well, to a point. the device really could tell one voice from another, and would not open except when it heard that voice. The problem was that a recording of the voice might work as well as a live person speaking.

Suggestion--perhaps a program sophisticated enough to tell a live voice from a  recording could be given a try