Patent ID: 7006605

Claim:
A system for authenticating a caller before providing the caller with access to one or more secured resources, comprising: stored voiceprint identification data that was stored during system enrollment of a plurality of known persons; stored verification data that was stored during the system enrollment of the plurality of known persons; and a processing system configured to receive spoken identification information spoken in a current call initiated by a currently unidentified caller, receive verification information from the current call that is independent of the spoken identification information, generate a voiceprint associated with the currently unidentified caller from the spoken identification information, automatically compare the voiceprint associated with the currently unidentified caller with the stored voiceprint identification data to identify the currently unidentified caller as at least one of the plurality of known persons, the currently unidentified caller a now identified caller, automatically compare the verification information with the stored verification data for the at least one of the plurality of known persons to verify the identity of the now identified caller as a particular one of the plurality of known persons, the now identified caller a now identified and verified caller, and authenticate the now identified and verified caller for access to the one or more secured resources in response to identifying and verifying the identity of the now identified and verified caller.