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Granted Patent B2
US 10,446,157 · App. 15/382,935 · Granted Oct 15, 2019

Synthesized voice authentication engine

Inventors: Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX); Karl W. Thomas (Orland, CA); Paul Grayson Roscoe (Treuddyn, GB); Saritha Vrittamani (Plano, TX)
Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
G10L17/02G10L13/02G10L13/00G10L13/08G10L17/00G10L17/20G10L17/22H04L63/107
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Patent No.
US 10,446,157
App. No.
15/382,935
Granted
Oct 15, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system for creating a synthetic voice identifier may include a plurality of synthesized voice authorization (SVA) devices and a biometric combinatory device (BCD). The SVAs may be communicatively coupled to the BCD via a network and may communicate utilizing a markup language. The SVA devices may capture an audio signal of a voice of a user, modify the audio signal with a randomized audio frequency signal to generate a modified audio signal, and communicate, the modified audio signal as a synthesized voice signal associated with the user. The BCD may receive biometric information corresponding to a user, the biometric information comprising at least audio information associated with a voice of the user, receive, at an integration module, location information corresponding to a location of the user, combine, the location information and audio signal information associated with the user to generate a synthesized voice identifier associated with the user, and communicate the synthesized voice identifier to a remote device for use in an authentication process of the user.

Claims (31)

1. A biometric combinatory device, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory memory device storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the biometric combinatory device to:

receive, at a collection module from a first computing device, biometric information corresponding to a user, the biometric information comprising at least an audio clip of a voice of the user captured as part of an authentication request;

receive, at an integration module, location information corresponding to a geographic location of the user, the location information of the user captured by a location sensor of the first computing device;

generate a randomized frequency signal based on the location information;

generate, by the integration module, a synthesized voice identifier associated with the user as a combination of the randomized frequency signal and the audio clip of the voice of the user; and

communicate, via a network connection, the synthesized voice identifier to a remote device for use in an authentication process of the user.

2. The biometric combinatory device of claim 1 , wherein the biometric combinatory device comprises a centrally located computing system communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote computing systems running applications receiving the synthesized voice identifier for use in an authentication process.

3. The biometric combinatory device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the biometric combinatory device to receive an authentication request from the remote device.

4. The biometric combinatory device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the biometric combinatory device to receive an audio signal associated with the user.

5. The biometric combinatory device of claim 4 , wherein the instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the biometric combinatory device to receive the audio signal in near real time.

6. The biometric combinatory device of claim 4 , wherein the instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the biometric combinatory device to receive the audio signal as a recorded audio clip.

7. The biometric combinatory device of claim 1 , wherein the randomized frequency signal comprises a signal at a frequency within a sub-audible range.

8. The biometric combinatory device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the biometric combinatory device to:

format, with a markup language, a communication of the synthesized voice identifier for communication over the network.

9. The biometric combinatory device of claim 1 , wherein communication of the synthesized voice identifier includes multi-language support.

10. A method for synthetic voice authentication comprising:

receiving, at a collection module of a biometric combinatory device, biometric information corresponding to a user, the biometric information comprising at least an audio clip of a voice of the user captured as part of an authentication request;

receiving, from a remote voice authorization node, at an integration module, location information corresponding to a geographic location of the user captured by a location sensor of the remote voice authorization node;

generating a randomized frequency signal based on the location information and second biometric information;

generating, by an integration module of the biometric combinatory device, a synthesized voice identifier associated with the user as a combination of the randomized frequency signal and the audio clip of the voice of the user; and

communicating via a network connection, the synthesized voice identifier to a remote device for use in an authentication process of the user.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the biometric combinatory device comprises a centrally located computing system communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote computing systems running applications receiving the synthesized voice identifier for use in an authentication process.

12. The method of claim 10 , comprising receiving an authentication request from the remote device.

13. The method of claim 10 , comprising receiving an audio clip associated with the user.

14. The method of claim 13 , comprising receiving the audio signal in near real time.

15. The method of claim 13 , comprising receiving the audio signal as a recorded audio clip.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the randomized frequency signal comprises a signal at a frequency within a sub-audible range.

17. The method of claim 10 , comprising formatting, with a markup language, a communication of the synthesized voice identifier for communication over the network.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein communication of the synthesized voice identifier includes multi-language support.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2016
From: KURIAN, MANU; THOMAS, KARL W.; ROSCOE, PAUL GRAYSON; VRITTAMANI, SARITHA
To: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 040668/0050 →
Continuity (1)
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