News from the Consortium
OCTAVE has completed its technical activities
On 31 July 2017, the project has completed its technical activities, according to schedule. The final review meeting with the European Commission actually took place on July 12. Formalities related with completion of the final review procedures and with [...]
OCTAVE is completing its user trials
As of mid-June 2017, the project has completed its user trials at Findomestic, for the banking access application. In the very next days, also the user trials at Milano Linate Airport, for operators accessing a restricted security [...]
Project Final Workshop Report
Auditorium di Sant'Apollonia, Florence, 27 June 2017 The workshop has showcased the OCTAVE platform and technologies to an audience of stakeholders and experts in ICT Security, ID Management and Voice Biometrics. The programme included interlaced presentations delivered [...]
Project Final Workshop: Florence, 27 June 2017
Next Generation User Authentication by Voice Biometrics? Ready to Market! A workshop open to the public, in the splendid historical complex of Santa Apollonia. Attendance free of charge. Working languages: Italian and English, with simultaneous [...]
OCTAVE Fifth plenary meeting, Sophia-Antipolis (FR), 4-6 April 2017
On 4-6 April 2017, the project has celebrated its fifth plenary meeting, kindly hosted by the partner Eurecom, in Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France. The meeting has witnessed readiness of the platform for pilot. The project is now set for [...]
OCTAVE @ICASSP2017 – New Orleans (USA), 5-9 March
ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing) is the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The ICASSP 2017 conference featured world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, [...]
Workshop on “User Authentication by Voice Biometrics: Prospects and Challenges”
The workshop is organized by OCTAVE and will see presentations from project representatives, interlaced with presentations from stakeholders expressing their needs and commenting project results and technologies against their requirements. User interaction with the system [...]
OCTAVE @INTERSPEECH2016 – San Francisco (USA), 8-12 September
Interspeech 2016 was organized around the topic “Understanding Speech Processing in Humans and Machines” and was held in the Hyatt Regency San Francisco hotel in San Francisco, California. The OCTAVE project was well represented at [...]
OCTAVE Fourth plenary meeting, London (UK), 21-23 November 2016
On 21-23 November 2016, the project celebrated its fourth plenary meeting, at ATOS, London.
OCTAVE Technical alignment meeting, Rome (Italy), 28 October 2016
A Project alignment meeting has been held in Rome the 28th of October 2016. The Agenda of the meeting focused on three major points: 1. Progress check: Deliverables, User Applications, Trials; 2. Dissemination and Exploitation; [...]
OCTAVE @ EAB-RPC 2016, Darmstadt (Germany), 19-20 September 2016
OCTAVE has been invited to hold a project-dedicated session within the conference EAB-RPC 2016, to be held in Darmstadt, Germany on 19-20 September. The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and numerous EU research projects, namely [...]
OCTAVE Project Review Meeting in Brussels
The OCTAVE Project has successfully passed its first review meeting in Brussels, at REA, the Research Executve Agency of the European Commission, which is in charge of managing OCTAVE. The Consortium had turned up with [...]
Odyssey 2016 – Best paper Award goes to EURECOM
Bilbao 22 June 2016 - The Best Paper award went to Massimiliano Todisco for Massimiliano Todisco, Héctor Delgado and Nicholas Evans: A New Feature for Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-Spoofing: Constant Q Cepstral Coefficients. The paper reflects some results from [...]
OCTAVE @ ODYSSEY 2016, Bilbao, 21-24 June 2016
OCTAVE has organised a booth in the exhibition hall connected with the conference Odyssey 2016. For further information visit http://www.odyssey2016.org/ It was an opportunity for the Project to showcase its approach and its early [...]
OCTAVE Third plenary meeting, Athens 15-17 March, 2016
On 15-17 March 2016, the project celebrated its third plenary meeting, at AIT, Athens.
ValidSoft Voice Biometrics featured by Sky News
With a growing number of large scale deployments for voice biometrics becoming more publicised, Sky News speaks to ValidSoft on how the technology works and how its delivering much stronger security and simple user experience [...]
ValidSoft named as a leading vendor set to ‘Dominate the Global Voice Recognition Market for 2015-2019’
Market research firm Research and Markets have released a report on the worldwide voice biometric market, predicting strong growth over the next few years. The Global Voice Recognition Market 2015-2019, report predicts growth of 9.4 percent [...]
OCTAVE Second plenary meeting, Milano 18-19 November, 2015
On 18-19 November, the project celebrated its second plenary meeting, at SEA Aeroporti di Milano, Linate.
ValidSoft features on the BBC – ”How to authenticate the human rather than the device’
ValidSoft has been featured on BBC Business Daily. Senior Broadcast Journalist Ed Butler interviewed ValidSoft at the Future in Review (FiRe) event in Utah. The report discusses the future of authentication while highlighting the number of commercial [...]
OCTAVE @ INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany
INTERSPEECH 2015, one of the most prestigious international conferences about Speech and Language Processing, was held in Dresden, Germany, on September 6-10, 2015. OCTAVE was part of the conference thanks to the contribution and the [...]
OCTAVE Kick-off meeting, Rome 15-16-17 June, 2015
On 15-17 June 2015, the project OCTAVE celebrated its kick-off meeting at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. OCTAVE, which fits into the sector 'Secure Societies' Program Horizon 2020, is focused on building a Speaker Verification system, with [...]