The Bihar government plans to record voices of all
prisoners through an advanced speech recognition technology besides
holding prisoner 'darbars' to redress their grievances, a police
official said Wednesday.
"With these initiatives, Bihar will become the first state in
the country to modernise prisons," Inspector General of Police (Prisons)
Anand Kishore told IANS.
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He said the speech technology would help detect
and curb crime by allowing police to match voice samples of suspects
with those in the archives.
Speech technology relates to the technologies designed to
duplicate and respond to the human voice. They have many uses. These
include aid to the voice-disabled, the hearing-disabled, and the blind,
along with communication with computers without a keyboard. They enhance
game software and aid in marketing goods or services by telephone.
He said the concept of Bandi Darbar (prisoner assembly) to redress grievances of prisoners was also innovative.
"District magistrates have been asked to hold the sessions every two months," Kishore said.
He said the two plans would be implemented after the new jail manual replaced the existing one formulated in 1924.
The National Informatics Centre is also developing software for
computerisation of the state's prisons and upload all data on computers.
Kishore said all important information on prisoners, including crime
history, date of prison entry, date of production in court and wages
earned in jail would be fed into the computers besides records of
visitors to jails.
Visitors would also have to get their photos clicked and fingerprints scanned.
Bihar has eight central jails, 31 district jails and 17 sub-jails with a combined capacity of over 33,000 inmates.
Speech Technology Center (STC) has announced the successful
deployment of the world's first biometric identification platform, at a
nationwide level, that combines voice and face identification
capabilities.
The state-of-the-art system was deployed in Ecuador,
where the goal has been to equip the country's security services with
new identification technologies and investigative tools in their
continuing fight against crime.
The bimodal biometric system creates a forensic database that helps to identify persons suspected in a crime. Should a criminal investigation have voice recordings or photographs featuring the face of a suspected person, such samples could be compared with those in the database. The system processes the samples and delivers relevant matches; these can then be used as an investigative aid or forensic evidence in criminal cases.
Among varieties of biometrics currently used, a voice biometric identification system shows the highest reliability. Voice cannot be falsified, and STC's voice provides 97 percent reliability. Supplementing voice biometrics with face biometrics brings it closer to 100 percent correct identification and authentication. STC's face recognition algorithms deliver reliable results even when facial characteristics have undergone physical changes, and the system's voice and face modalities can be used together or separately—a voice sample or facial image alone is sufficient to make an identification. the company said.
"Voice and face identification are providing new and valuable investigative capabilities," said Mikhail Khitrov, chief executive officer of STC, in a statement. "In this case, STC's R&D capability and expertise, which are unique and unparalleled in the industry, let us deliver a platform that meets our client's specific needs. The biometric technologies providing the foundation of the system have proven to be reliable and robust in even the most challenging conditions. As biometric technologies mature, we're seeing a growing demand for these kinds of tailored voice and multimodal biometric solutions—not just in Latin America, but in the global marketplace."
The bimodal biometric system creates a forensic database that helps to identify persons suspected in a crime. Should a criminal investigation have voice recordings or photographs featuring the face of a suspected person, such samples could be compared with those in the database. The system processes the samples and delivers relevant matches; these can then be used as an investigative aid or forensic evidence in criminal cases.
Among varieties of biometrics currently used, a voice biometric identification system shows the highest reliability. Voice cannot be falsified, and STC's voice provides 97 percent reliability. Supplementing voice biometrics with face biometrics brings it closer to 100 percent correct identification and authentication. STC's face recognition algorithms deliver reliable results even when facial characteristics have undergone physical changes, and the system's voice and face modalities can be used together or separately—a voice sample or facial image alone is sufficient to make an identification. the company said.
"Voice and face identification are providing new and valuable investigative capabilities," said Mikhail Khitrov, chief executive officer of STC, in a statement. "In this case, STC's R&D capability and expertise, which are unique and unparalleled in the industry, let us deliver a platform that meets our client's specific needs. The biometric technologies providing the foundation of the system have proven to be reliable and robust in even the most challenging conditions. As biometric technologies mature, we're seeing a growing demand for these kinds of tailored voice and multimodal biometric solutions—not just in Latin America, but in the global marketplace."
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