PerSay was an Israeli start-up company specializing in Voice Biometrics technology. Founded in 2000, its voice biometrics systems are used in the banking, insurance, governments, and telecommunications industries worldwide.^[3]

History

PerSay was founded in February 2000 as a spin-off of Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT), part of the Comverse Technology (Pinksheets: CMVT) group. Its headquarters is in Ra'anana, with an office in New York City. Its main investor was SKFT, which handled the venture capital activity of the Shrem Fudim Kelner group.^[2] In April 2004 the company was valued at $2.9 to $3.7 million.^[4] In 2010 the company was sold for an undisclosed amount (estimated at 10M-20M USD) to Nuance Communications.^{[citation needed]}

Products

PerSay markets the following products:^[5]

• VocalPassword, a biometric speaker identification system which verifies the speaker during an interaction using a voice application
• FreeSpeech, a text-independent biometric speaker identification system which verifies a person's identity in the course of natural conversation
• S.P.I.D., an audio-processing system which searches for a target's voice in a volume of intercepted calls

PerSay's VocalPassword speaker identification technology has been acquired by Bank Leumi,^[6] China Merchants Bank,^[3] Bank Hapoalim, Israel Discount Bank, and Caja Madrid;^[7] British Telecom,^[8] Bell Canada, Vodafone, and Global Bilgi/Turkcell;^[7] Sandata,^[9] Planet Payment of New York,^[10] Huawei,^[11] and Barclays Capital and Morgan Stanley.^[7]

References

External links

• Home page Archived 2014-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
• "Emerging Tech Talk #45 - Voice Biometrics - Ariel Freidenberg of PerSay" on Blip.tv