Several weeks ago tech giant Meta was granted patent rights to an obscure idea from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled “User Authentication Using Combination Of Vocalization And Skin Vibration.” While it is currently unknown what this would be used for, it is definitely a new type of user verification.
According to the patent filing’s abstract, it was filed in December 2022 and recently accepted on June 27th, 2024, and is described as:
An audio system configured to authenticate a user. The system detects, via a microphone array, airborne acoustic waves corresponding to a vocalization of a user. The system also detects, via a vibration measurement assembly, vibration of tissue of the user caused by the vocalization. The system generates an authentication dataset using the detected airborne acoustic waves and the detected vibration of tissue. The system may authenticate the user based in part on the authentication dataset.
Meta claims in its filing that the reason for this new type of authentication is because speech recognition is the most reliable and secure. “Solely using voice biometrics may not be safe as one person can easily hack another person’s voice (either through computer generation, or by impersonating their voice) in order to hack the device. Accordingly, there is a security concern with voice-only activation authentication systems,” the company stated.
Meta provided a more detailed summary as to how this new invention would operate:
There is a security concern with voice-only activation authentication systems because one can easily hack another’s voice either through computer generation or by impersonating. Principles described herein solve the above-described problem by using a unique combination of vocalization of a user and vibration of tissue of the user caused by the vocalization to authenticate the user.
In some embodiments a method is described. The method includes detecting, via a microphone array, airborne acoustic waves corresponding to a vocalization of a user; and detecting, via a vibration measurement assembly, vibrations of tissue of the user caused by the vocalization. An authentication dataset is then generated based on the detected airborne acoustic waves and the detected vibrations of tissue. The user is authenticated based in part on the authentication dataset.
In some embodiments, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is described. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium includes stored instructions, that when executed by a processor of a device, cause the device to detect, via a microphone array, airborne acoustic waves corresponding to a vocalization of a user.
The execution of the instructions also cause the device to detect, via a vibration measurement assembly, vibrations of tissue of the user caused by the vocalization, and generate an authentication dataset based on the detected airborne acoustic waves and the detected vibrations of tissue. The execution of the instructions also cause the device to authenticate the user based in part on the authentication dataset.
In some embodiments, a system is described. Embodiments related to a system configured to authenticate a user based on a unique combination of vocalization of a user and vibrations of tissue of the user caused by the vocalization. The system detects, via a microphone array, airborne acoustic waves corresponding to a vocalization of a user. The system also detects, via a vibration measurement assembly, vibration of tissue of the user caused by the vocalization.
The system generates an authentication dataset using the detected airborne acoustic waves and the detected vibration of tissue, and authenticates the user based in part on the authentication dataset.
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In early 2022, Meta also filed a patent for a cybernetic eyeball implant that apparently is supposed to work in concert with the metaverse.
This new type of verification is very odd and wild to say the least; and while we will have to see how this gets integrated, if ever, I suppose this is, perhaps, another underpinning for the coming mark of the beast technology.
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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