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2, 2010, 07.00pm IST (Voice is password here )   Scenario I:  An
illiterate person walks into an ATM, utters his password in
Bhojpuri to withdraw money. Or a labourer working under the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) speaks his voice
signature to mark his attendance for the day.  Scenario II:  The
door at a top-secret Indian defence establishment open son a
voice recognition system that allows only certain officials
access to the premises. IF YOU think this is stuff out of
movies, think again. A team of Indian professors is developing a
person authentication system based on the speech verification
method. Simply put, it's a solution that can be retrofitted into
any password authentication system and will recognise your voice
as a password — irrespective of the language you speak. And when
launched, it is likely to work in all environments — offices ,
railway stations, airports or at an ATM.  By 2011 a pilot
project will be rolled