the system at "9 out of 10" for speed, ease of use and security. Speaker recognition may also be used in criminal investigations, such as those of the 2014 executions of, amongst others, James Foley and Steven Sotloff. In February 2016 UK high-street bank HSBC and its internet-based retail bank First Direct announced that it would offer 15 million customers its biometric banking software to access online and phone accounts using their fingerprint or voice. See also AI effect Applications of artificial intelligence Speaker diarisation Speech recognition Voice changer Lists List of emerging technologies Outline of artificial intelligence Notes References Homayoon Beigi (2011), "Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2011, . "Biometrics from the movies" –National Institute of Standards and Technology Elisabeth Zetterholm (2003), Voice Imitation. A Phonetic Study of Perceptual Illusions and Acoustic Success, Phd thesis, Lund University. Md Sahidullah (2015), Enhancement of Speaker Recognition Performance Using Block Level, Relative and Temporal Information of Subband Energies, PhD thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. External links Circumventing Voice Authentication The PLA Radio podcast recently featured a simple way to fool rudimentary voice authentication systems. Speaker recognition – Scholarpedia Voice recognition benefits and challenges in access control Software bob.bio.spear ALIZE Speech processing Voice technology Automatic identification and data capture Biometrics