Influential Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan has invested an undisclosed amount in Uniphore, a Chennai-based speech recognition firm that counts voice biometrics among its key offerings.Uniphore has said the funding will fuel its global expansion and product and core technology development plans.”Man-Machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem and the company has already made substantial progress,” said Gopalakrishnan.Uniphore says that its amVoice biometric solution can reduce the Identification and Verification (ID&V) process for contact centres to less than 15 seconds.To enroll in the voice biometrics system, a caller creates a 'voice-print' by speaking any common phrase in her native or preferred language. The voice-print is as unique to the caller as a fingerprint, and is built using 32 different elements of the user's voice pattern, both behavioral and physiological. It is used as the digital representation of her voice, and as a standard of comparison for authentication when she calls in the future. A consumer can simply speak her pass phrase into the device, after which the system matches, her voice-print to the stored voice-print, and accepts or rejects it.”This investment is a powerful endorsement of Uniphore's ability to provide unique and measurable value to our enterprise customers across industries through speech recognition technology ,” said Umesh Sachdev, Co-founder and CEO, Uniphore Software Systems.

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