Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media for confirmation and
verification of shipping address data associated with a transaction. The
invention as described herein provides a method of verifying first and at
least second shipping address information associated with transactions
conducted over a telecommunications network. The first and second
shipping address information can be stored respectively in a first format
and a second format, such as respective speech and text formats. The
method functions by accessing address information pertaining to a
specific transaction by extracting the respective address information as
stored in both formats. The address information is then compared to each
other to ensure that they are consistent. If the address information as
stored in the two respective formats are sufficiently inconsistent, the
underlying transaction may be dispositioned in various ways according to
the difference. Typically, the person with whom the transaction is
conducted provides live voice data that is stored in a first data store,
while a live operator interacting with the person transcribes this voice
data for storage as text data in a second data store. The invention
focuses on ensuring consistency between the address information as stored
in these two different data stores for the purposes of both quality
assurance and fraud prevention. Apparatus and computer readable media
implementing the above-described method are also provided herein.