Patent ID: 8014496

Claim:
A system for providing voice authentication via a network, comprising: a voice response system operatively coupled to the network for receiving transaction or access requests from a plurality of telecommunications devices over the network; a speech recognition and verification services engine operatively coupled to the network; and a memory operatively coupled to the speech recognition and verification services engine for storing user voice print profiles, where the voice response system is to: receive a request from a telecommunications device of the plurality of telecommunications devices, determine, based on the received request, an authentication security level, out of a plurality of candidate authentication security levels, for the request, and place a speaker verification call, after receiving the request and determining the authentication security level, to the speech recognition and verification services engine using a particular access number, the particular access number being selected based on the determined authentication security level, where the speech recognition and verification services engine is to: receive the speaker verification call from the voice response system, perform speaker verification on the received speaker verification call based on the stored user voice print profiles, and generate a verification score based upon results of the speaker verification.