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Exclusively for Digital Forensics Magazine Phonexia’s CTO Petr Schwarz has written a comprehensive article about voice biometrics and its use in forensics. He discloses how the technology works and can be used in the daily routines of forensics experts as strong proof or evidence for presentation in a court of law.

The GDPR is a set of rules that regulates the processing of personal data related to individuals in the European Union. But how does the GDPR influence call centers, banks, insurance companies and other institutions that use voice biometrics?

Digital assistants are slowly integrating themselves into our homes, but they are far from being truly intelligent. Companies are considering using voicebots in their customer support but are afraid that voicebots are still a bit too clumsy to talk with customers. How far off is the future of smart and highly cooperative robots? And how is a voice-first approach going to change our lives?

Phonexia has just released the new version 3.12 of its Speech Engine which comes with an improved Denoiser technology, now accessible also via REST API.

Phonexia will be presenting its latest innovations at ISS World Europe in Prague, on June 6 – 7. Come and meet us at tabletop booth T8.

The prestigious Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has just published a scientific article evaluating the performance of Phonexia speech technologies in the most difficult conditions. The evaluations were undertaken in extremely noisy environments where the speech itself was barely audible.

Phonexia has just launched Deep EmbeddingsTM – the latest generation of its voice biometrics engine for speaker identification and verification. The new technology exclusively uses deep neural networks (DNN) to map voices directly to their unique small and fixed length records called voice-prints.

After making the decision to quit my previous job, I carefully considered where to go. There were many options and I had to evaluate which one would be the best for me. I was tempted to go back to IT, but my primary goal was to attain freedom by the age of 50 – the freedom to pursue whatever I want; regarding work, sports, or family.

In 2009, I started looking for a new job. I had been working as a project manager and wanted to continue in that line of work, which is why VUT’s offer caught my eye. When I arrived at the job interview with Honza Černocký, who was the head of VUT’s [email protected] group, I was surprised that a committee of more than six people was also present.