Biometric voice authentication

A method of voice authentication for authenticating a speaker's identity from an authorization utterance, comprising:

• determining an identification of the speaker based on a non-biometric analysis of the authorization utterance;
• and
• verifying the identification of the speaker as determined by the non-biometric analysis, the verification of the identification based on a biometric analysis of the same authorization utterance against an enrollment utterance associated with the identification, the enrollment utterance stored during enrollment of the speaker for the voice authentication.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium structured to store instructions executable by a processor in a computing device, the instructions, when executed cause the processor to:

• determine an identification of the speaker based on a non-biometric analysis of the authorization utterance;
• and
• verify the identification of the speaker as determined by the non-biometric analysis based on a biometric analysis of the same authorization utterance against an enrollment utterance associated with the identification, the enrollment utterance stored during enrollment of the speaker prior to the verification.