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Distance learning involves delivery of educational services to students who are not physically present at the educational institution. It is the fastest-growing segment of education, particularly in higher education and adult education. Today’s distance education is also a far cry from the mailed “correspondence courses” offered by Isaac Pitman more than 150 years ago. It uses television, radio, CD-ROM, mobile devices, the Internet, and speech technologies.
This is the first of two columns describing ways in which providers of distance-learning services are incorporating speech into their offerings. It describes the use of speaker verification (SV) to verify that the person taking a course is the student who is supposed to be taking it, and that the person taking an examination is the registered student.
Authentication of a student’s identity is especially difficult in e-learning because the institution may never have direct contact with the student. Increasingly, the need to address this challenge is being mandated by certification bodies, companies whose employees must complete academic requirements, and government regulators. I Drive Safely and Language Testing International are two such companies using SV to help them address the authentication challenges and requirements.