VoiceScape is a speech based server allowing the access to the Internet without input from a keyboard and output on a screen. VoiceScape prepares the information sources by exploiting modern speech processing technologies in such a way that solely auditive or alternatively audio-visual Internet exploration is possible. If the connection to VoiceScape is telephone based , the Internet navigation can be done using voice commands. The actually accessed HTML-documents are interpreted and the information relevant for a user is transformed into speech representation. Moreover, VoiceScape applies speaker verification for restricting the access to proprietary data and private areas of the Internet as well as to the Internet in general.
Speaker verification is an efficient and powerful biometrical method for identifying a person.
The further development of VoiceScape is directed to the design of a JAVA based Client-Server concept presuming that a standard for speech input will be set. During the entering of VoiceScape the identity of a user is checked in a speech dialogue. Utterances from the user are compared with those recorded during the enrollment procedure. Speaker verification is very efficient and flexible. A high security can be realized for private data areas and applications, e.g. eMail, Telebanking etc., while a relatively low security level is sufficient for the general Internet access.