Application of speaker authentication technology to a telephone dialogue system

TelCorreo is a dialogue system that allows users to manage their e-mail accounts using the telephone. Regarding speech technology, TelCorreo is a highly demanding application, since it needs of state-of-art text-to-speech system, speech recognizer and speaker authentifier. The main features of TelCorreo are described in [1] and [2]. In this paper, we will concentrate on the speaker authentication module.