PerSay

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PerSayIndustry| Speaker recognition technology

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Founded| February 2000 (2000-02)
Founder| Renana Peres[1]
Headquarters|

Ra'anana

Israel

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Renana Peres, Founder and first CEO
Almog Aley-Raz, CEO
Ariel Freidenberg, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development
Products| VocalPassword, FreeSpeech[2]
Owner| Nuance Communications

Number of employees

| 18
Website| www.persay.com

PerSay was an Israeli start-up company specializing in Voice Biometrics technology. Founded in 2000, its voice biometrics systems are used in the banking, insurance, governments, and telecommunications industries worldwide.[3]

## History

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PerSay was founded in February 2000 as a spin-off of Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT), part of the Comverse Technology (Pinksheets: CMVT) group. Its headquarters is in Ra'anana, with an office in New York City. Its main investor was SKFT, which handled the venture capital activity of the Shrem Fudim Kelner group.[2] In April 2004 the company was valued at $2.9 to $3.7 million.[4] In 2010 the company was sold for an undisclosed amount (estimated at 10M-20M USD) to Nuance Communications.[5]

## Products

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PerSay markets the following products:[6]

* VocalPassword, a biometric speaker identification system which verifies the speaker during an interaction using a voice application
* FreeSpeech, a text-independent biometric speaker identification system which verifies a person's identity in the course of natural conversation
* S.P.I.D., an audio-processing system which searches for a target’s voice in a volume of intercepted calls

PerSay's VocalPassword speaker identification technology has been acquired by Bank Leumi,[7] China Merchants Bank,[3] Bank Hapoalim, Israel Discount Bank, and Caja Madrid;[8] British Telecom,[9] Bell Canada, Vodafone, and Global Bilgi/Turkcell;[8] Sandata,[10] Planet Payment of New York,[11] Huawei,[12] and Barclays Capital and Morgan Stanley.[8]

## References

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1. ^ "Voice Recognition Rechnology". Globes. 5 February 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
2. ^ a b "SFKT injects $2m into Persay just months after write down". Globes. 22 June 2004. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
3. ^ a b Feldman, Batya (17 February 2009). "PerSay signs deals worth $4 million: The voice recognition company has signed contracts with customers in China, the Philippines and US". Globes. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
4. ^ "PerSay valued at $2.9-3.7m". Globes. 7 April 2004. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
5. ^ Read, Brendan B. (6 January 2011). "IVR: Nuance Acquires PerSay to Bring Voice Biometrics to Market". TMC.net. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
6. ^ "PerSay, Inc". Bloomberg Businessweek. 2011. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
7. ^ "Persay secures contract with Bank Leumi". Telecom.paper BV. 19 February 2003. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
8. ^ a b c "PerSay". Israel Trade Commission. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
9. ^ Dar, Zuri (15 February 2005). "Persay wins BT anti-phishing tender". Haaretz. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
10. ^ PR Newswire (3 December 2009). "Sandata Enhances Fraud Prevention Capabilities With Improved Voice Biometrics From PerSay Ltd". The Street. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
11. ^ "Planet Payment Selects PerSay for Voice Authentication (press release)". Reuters. 29 November 2007. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
12. ^ "Huawei partners with PerSay for voice biometrics". Telecom.paper BV. 8 April 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2011.

## External links

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* Home page
* "Emerging Tech Talk #45 - Voice Biometrics - Ariel Freidenberg of PerSay" on Blip.tv