Sentry's product began Alpha testing on August 17, 1998. It
is designed to precisely verify the identity of any Internet
user through the use of a personally-selected voice password
-- any spoken password in any language. This exact user
verification will secure Internet transactions and access to
network-delivered information or resources. Sentry's product
uses existing hardware -- the user's voice password is
spoken directly into the desktop PC's standard microphone
and is fully functional using the most commonly available
sound cards.

"Test results are even better than we had hoped," said Al
Forbes, Sentry's CEO. "We're enrolling user voice prints on
a TCP/IP network and verifying the users across a LAN. The
next step is moving the test to the Internet. The key to
successfully using voice verification on the Internet is how
easy and intuitive it is for the users.