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BBC Teaming With Microsoft on AI Tests Using Voiceprints

The BBC is working with Microsoft to build an “experimental version” of its iPlayer internet-streaming catchup service that uses artificial intelligence “to allow individuals to sign in to BBC services using their unique voiceprint and to talk to their TV…

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to select what they want to watch,” Cyrus Saihan, the broadcaster’s head of digital partnerships, blogged Wednesday. A voice print is matched “to a sample of your voice stored in the cloud,” he said: AI software then “checks that you are who you say you are and then signs you in."