A software company from Munich is telling its customers: “Forget your passwords, it’s more secure. Your voice is your passport.”, with the introduction of iPhone Voicesafe to the iTunes AppStore. This mobile safe for personal secrets was developed by the technology leader for voice authentication Voicetrust. A free-of-charge version is available that lets users test the software for four weeks. The unlimited version of Voicesafe for iPhones is offered for sale.
Voicesafe stores PIN numbers of credit or debit cards, passwords for logins and simply secrets of all kinds on the iPhone. When activating the Voicesafe for the first time the user will be asked to record a sentence he/she would like to use as pass phrase (e.g. “My voice is my passport”). The software then generates a voice profile to differentiate the iPhone’s owner from any third parties. The personal secrets stored on the mobile device will be displayed only after the iPhone application has both recognized the voice and the pass phrase.
In 2000, Michael Kramer (today the company’s CEO) created the foundation for Voicetrust. Kramer came up with the idea to bring a solution to market that uses voice biometrics to prevent the threat of identity theft.
