Dan Goldin, who spent nine years in the 1990s leading Nasa, has revealed a new firm that will specialise in “neural chips” and a machine-learning voice recognition and biometric authentication platform.Goldin says that his firm KnuEdge has “emerged from 10 years in stealth mode” with a voice recognition solution that is faster and more accurate that the offerings from Apple and Google, and that it already boasts Fortune 500 clients and $100m in private funding.The core technology includes patented authentication techniques, which will human voice biometrics accureate even in noisy, real-world environments, the company says.It is military-grade voice recognition and authentication technology that unlocks the potential for human-voice interfaces in next-generation computing, said the ex-Nasa chief's firm.”Anyone who has tried to navigate a call center voice menu on a busy sidewalk or with kids in the room knows the frustrations around voice recognition and authentication,” said Nik Rouda, Senior Analyst at ESG. “KnuVerse has taken a novel, ground-up approach to real-time voice analytics, solving for ease-of-use, security and real-world connections and noise problems.””KnuVerse has already driven millions in revenue, and although we have just begun selling commercially, we have significant interest from Fortune 500 companies in the banking, healthcare and entertainment industries,” said Kate Dilligan, EVP of KnuVerse. “When our enterprise customers realize that they can instantly recognize and authenticate users on any device or platform without friction, the innovation wheels start turning. They stop worrying about fundamental tech issues and begin looking at higher-order opportunities such as improving the customer experience and establishing new competitive advantages.”On the same day, Knuedge has revealed the development of an unusual processor chip and related hardware and software, aiming to bring dramatic speed improvements to tough chores like finding patterns in images, sounds and financial data.”At KnuEdge, we are not in business to create incremental technology improvements on what already exists. Our mission is fundamental transformation,” said Goldin. “We were swinging for the fences from the very beginning, with intent to create technologies that will in essence alter how humans interact with machines, and enable next-generation computing capabilities ranging from machine learning to artificial intelligence.”
Ex-Nasa chief reveals 'transformational’ voice biometric solution
