Voice recognition and authentication technology firm KnuVerse has announced the winners of its 2016 Knurld Hackathon, the first ever-voice biometric hackathon.Knurld, KnuVerse's cloud-based API service, challenged developers to innovate on the concept of traditional web and mobile applications by integrating its secure and convenient API for cutting-edge voice authentication. Submissions were required to be functional, newly created or updated to include the Knurld API and free of charge to test, evaluate and use.”The ability to build applications with voice authentication technology has long been limited to a small number of enterprise companies. But with the ourAPIs developers can now easily implement voice biometric capabilities into their web and mobile applications,” said Marty Seyer, COO, KnuEdge. “The participants of the 2016 Knurld Hackathon exemplify the wealth of creativity in the developer community and the vast possibilities for applications when voice is available to everyone.”The grand prize winners of the 2016 Knurld Hackathon are Kyle Parker, Robert Littleford and Chaz Estell, the makers of a real-time, physical-space game, Campus Claim.The organisers said thes non-traditional application garnered top honors due to its well-implemented and refined concept. It also opens the door for game developers to employ voice authentication and recognition for a next-generation gaming experience.Additional winners include Blaise Marchetti, Matthew Roseman, Istvan Gates and Aron Gates' Android and iOS application, Crypto Chat — an end-to-end encryption service. The Web and Desktop application winner is a highly secure notes application called WIDITS developed by Jorge Garcia and Osvaldo Concepcion. And the maker of the winning application in the IoT category, Samir Toumi, won with Hotel room access, an application that enables people to book and access hotel rooms using their voice.
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