Investigatory Voice Biometrics

In 2009 NIST began a joint effort with the FBI to conduct research supporting the creation of voice biometric standards for the U.S. Government. Following a technical symposium and review of the resulting Investigatory Voice Biometrics' committee reports (2011), the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard was identified as the logical place to concentrate efforts.

Over the next year the Investigatory Voice Biometrics Committee (with representation from NIST, FBI, MIT-LL, and selected expert consultants) worked to produce a functional draft of the Type-11 Record aimed to seed a Voice Supplement to the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 standard.

Current Status:

• The current draft Voice Supplement for the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Standard is available for public comment.
• Comments should be submitted to NIST (voice_poc@nist.gov) using the commenting form.

Below describes the immediate schedule:

• We are requesting comments to be returned before September 30th.
• During October the comments will be reviewed and entered into the Draft Document.
• Our next meeting is scheduled for November 20th 2012 at NIST where we will discuss the Editor's response(s). If you would like to attend this meeting or be added to the ANSI/NIST-ITL Voice Working Group email list, please send a request to voice_poc@nist.gov.