Online banking is generally an exercise in recalling complicated pin numbers or passwords — but what if there was clearly a less strenuous way? Within the Netherlands, there is certainly: banking clients who make use of the ING Netherlands app can currently long to their banking account, check balances and work out transfers utilizing simply their sound. The technology is named voice biometrics, and it’s really running on Nuance’s Nina. When it was shown down a couple of years straight back, it offered a pretty compelling option to remembering a pin-code — a video for the feature showed a number of men and women simply saying “my voice is my password” to test their bank balance and buy concert tickets. Not only is it far more convenient, Nuance claims, but it’s actually better: sound recognition is not vulnerable to brute force assaults and a failed try to fool the machine is also recorded, stored and utilized to improve security. ING Netherlands is rolling the feature out to iOS and Android members currently, noting that appropriate devices may also be able to utilize fingerprint recognition, instead.