Speech Recognition is usually quite different from voice authentication (often called voice biometrics). Here is a good overview document - http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/authentication/exploration-voice-biometrics_1436 says:
There are consultant companies such as J. Markowitz, Consultants who
rank voice vendor software. These reports are often available for
purchase online. One vendor’s implementation may be more suitable than
another depending on the use case. Nuance (www.nuance.com) and Vocent
(www.vocent.com) are two vendors who provide voice authentication
solutions and who came up repeatedly in the research for the “Current
Applications” section of this paper. Nuance has been rated the top
voice authentication technology vendor by Celent Communications.12
Nuance claims a 96% or higher accuracy rate for speech recognition13,
and Nuance’s Verifier product claims a “high” accuracy rate.
That is a good overview, but it is a little out of date. Look around for others such as:
- http://www.persay.com/technology-voice-biometrics.asp
- http://www.voxeo.com/biometrics/home.jsp
- http://www.nuance.com/landing-pages/enterprise/voice-biometrics/default.asp
- http://www.angel.com/products/voice-biometrics.php
- http://www.voicevault.com/voicevault-enterprise/
