Nuance Powers Award Winning Voice Biometrics Solution for FST21’s SafeRise

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Nuance Communications, the leader of speech and customer interaction solutions, today announced that its industry leading voice recognition technologies, Nuance Recognizer and Nuance Verifier power SafeRise from FST21, a leading provider of intelligent controlled access and automation solutions and services. SafeRise was honored as the Best New Product of the Year Award at the 2011 Security Industry Association New Product Showcase (NPS) awards ceremony at the International Security Conference (ISC) West.

“SafeRise revolutionizes the way people enter buildings by providing easy, automated and convenient access for residents and guests, while maintaining the highest level of preventive security”

SafeRise is an identity management solution that uses next-generation biometrics technology, to provide the highest level of security to access buildings, for both authorized persons, such as employees or building residents, as well as visitors. The system is unique in that it uses no keys, no security card and no codes. Instead, the faces and voices of authorized personnel work like a building key.

“SafeRise revolutionizes the way people enter buildings by providing easy, automated and convenient access for residents and guests, while maintaining the highest level of preventive security,” said Major General (Res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash , chairman and chief executive officer, FST21 Ltd . “Voice recognition is a core component of SafeRise and through Nuance we are able to offer industry leading speech solutions that provide the highest form of security to our customers.”

Nuance provides the voice recognition technology for SafeRise through its industry-leading speech engine, Nuance Recognizer, which delivers the industry’s highest recognition accuracy and enables natural, human-like conversations, for more satisfying self-service interactions. Nuance’s speaker verification solution, Verifier, provides secure access to sensitive information over the phone by creating individual voiceprints to authenticate callers by the characteristics of their voices.

“The SafeRise security solution provides an innovative access approach with instant appeal to building developers, management companies and tenants alike. Nuance is honored that FST21 has recognized the value our industry-leading speech solutions provide significant innovations to their building access and security,” said Steve Chambers, chief marketing officer, Nuance Communications. “The top honors award that FST21 has received further validates that speech and speaker verification are both valuable and needed to deliver an innovative, convenient and reliable security solution.”

About FST21

FST21 Ltd. is a security and automation technology company founded by Major General (Res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash, a world‐leading security expert who has held numerous prominent positions with the Israel Defense Forces in his distinguished 40-year career of public service. The company was established to become a leading provider of intelligent controlled access and automation solutions and services with the mission of increasing safety and enhancing quality of life in government, commercial and residential buildings. For more information please visit www.fst21.com.

About Nuance Communications

Nuance is a leading provider of speech and customer interaction solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

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