Secured vocal access to telephone servers

A number of applications of man-machine interaction over the telephone requires a combination of speech recognition and speaker verification. This paper describes work carried out at IDIAP in the framework of national and European projects. A generic interactive voice server (IVS) is described by means of a graphical formalism. It includes speech recognition based on speaker independent flexible vocabulary technology and speaker verification performed by a number of techniques executed in parallel, and combined for optimal decision making.