Industry | Speaker recognition technology |
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Founded | February 2000 |
Founder | Renana Peres [1] |
Headquarters | , |
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 |
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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]
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]
PerSay markets the following products: [6]
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]