Distributed Speaker Recognition Using the ETSI Distributed Speech Recognition Standard

Biometrics is gaining strong support for the personalization of and the securing of mobile devices. It is not uncommon for individual users to be faced with a half-dozen or more passwords and personal identification numbers. The ubiquity of passwords actually relaxes system security since many users tend to use the same password across all applications, or collect the various passwords in a single location. The use of biometrics not only recovers the ability to secure sensitive systems and data, but also does so in a user-friendly manner. The successful use of biometrics in distributed systems addresses several key concerns. First, the authentication strategy must maintain acceptable levels of security. Second, the user community must accept the chosen biometric. The last major consideration is the scalability of the solution. We introduce a biometric access control solution for distributed, mobile computing environments.