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Voice recognition technology enables the execution of real-world operations through a single voice command. This paper introduces a voice recognition system that involves converting input voice signals into corresponding text using an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Lochan Basyal

Voice authentication has become an integral part in security-critical operations, such as bank transactions and call center conversations. The vulnerability of automatic speaker verification systems (ASVs) to spoofing attacks instigated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Andre Kassis , Urs Hengartner

Measuring 3D geometric structures of indoor scenes requires dedicated depth sensors, which are not always available. Echo-based depth estimation has recently been studied as a promising alternative solution. All previous studies have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Junpei Honma , Akisato Kimura , Go Irie

With the development of smart devices, such as the Amazon Echo and Apple's HomePod, speech data have become a new dimension of big data. However, privacy and security concerns may hinder the collection and sharing of real-world speech data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yaowei Han , Sheng Li , Yang Cao , Qiang Ma , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

The popularity of mobile device has made people's lives more convenient, but threatened people's privacy at the same time. As end users are becoming more and more concerned on the protection of their private information, it is even harder…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Zhe Zhou , Wenrui Diao , Xiangyu Liu , Kehuan Zhang

Voice assistants have become quite popular lately while in parallel they are an important part of smarthome systems. Through their voice assistants, users can perform various tasks, control other devices and enjoy third party services. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Georgios Germanos , Dimitris Kavallieros , Nicholas Kolokotronis , Nikolaos Georgiou

Despite their immense popularity, deep learning-based acoustic systems are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein maliciously crafted audios trigger target systems to misbehave. In this paper, we present SirenAttack, a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Tianyu Du , Shouling Ji , Jinfeng Li , Qinchen Gu , Ting Wang , Raheem Beyah

As a versatile AI application, voice assistants (VAs) have become increasingly popular, but are vulnerable to security threats. Attackers have proposed various inaudible attacks, but are limited by cost, distance, or LoS. Therefore, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chao Liu , Zhezheng Zhu , Hao Chen , Kaiwen Guo , Penghao Wang , Xiang-Yang Li

With the increasing popularity of voice-based applications, acoustic eavesdropping has become a serious threat to users' privacy. While on smartphones the access to microphones needs an explicit user permission, acoustic eavesdropping…

Voiceprints are widely used for authentication; however, they are easily captured in public settings and cannot be revoked once leaked. Existing anonymization systems operate inside recording devices, which makes them ineffective when…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhiyuan Ning , Zhanyong Tang , Xiaojiang Chen , Zheng Wang

Adversarial attacks against commercial black-box speech platforms, including cloud speech APIs and voice control devices, have received little attention until recent years. The current "black-box" attacks all heavily rely on the knowledge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Baolin Zheng , Peipei Jiang , Qian Wang , Qi Li , Chao Shen , Cong Wang , Yunjie Ge , Qingyang Teng , Shenyi Zhang

Substantial improvements have been achieved in recent years in voice conversion, which converts the speaker characteristics of an utterance into those of another speaker without changing the linguistic content of the utterance. Nonetheless,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Chien-yu Huang , Yist Y. Lin , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

Speech enabled foundation models, either in the form of flexible speech recognition based systems or audio-prompted large language models (LLMs), are becoming increasingly popular. One of the interesting aspects of these models is their…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

Smart speakers and voice-based virtual assistants are core components for the success of the IoT paradigm. Unfortunately, they are vulnerable to various privacy threats exploiting machine learning to analyze the generated encrypted traffic.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Andrea Ranieri , Davide Caputo , Luca Verderame , Alessio Merlo , Luca Caviglione

Smart speakers are gaining popularity. However, such devices can put the user's privacy at risk whenever hot-words are misinterpreted and voice data is recorded without the user's consent. To mitigate such risks, smart speakers provide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Christian Tiefenau , Maximilian Häring , Eva Gerlitz , Emanuel von Zezschwitz

In crowded settings, the human brain can focus on speech from a target speaker, given prior knowledge of how they sound. We introduce a novel intelligent hearable system that achieves this capability, enabling target speech hearing to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Bandhav Veluri , Malek Itani , Tuochao Chen , Takuya Yoshioka , Shyamnath Gollakota

The widespread smart devices raise people's concerns of being eavesdropped on. To enhance voice privacy, recent studies exploit the nonlinearity in microphone to jam audio recorders with inaudible ultrasound. However, existing solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Peng Huang , Yao Wei , Peng Cheng , Zhongjie Ba , Li Lu , Feng Lin , Yang Wang , Kui Ren

An adversarial attack is an exploitative process in which minute alterations are made to natural inputs, causing the inputs to be misclassified by neural models. In the field of speech recognition, this has become an issue of increasing…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Krishan Rajaratnam , Kunal Shah , Jugal Kalita

Nowadays, voice assistants help users complete tasks on the smartphone with voice commands, replacing traditional touchscreen interactions when such interactions are inhibited. However, the usability of those tools remains moderate due to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Minh Duc Vu , Han Wang , Zhuang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Zhenchang Xing , Chunyang Chen

Fake audio detection is expected to become an important research area in the field of smart speakers such as Google Home, Amazon Echo and chatbots developed for these platforms. This paper presents replay attack vulnerability of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Khalid Mahmood Malik , Hafiz Malik , Roland Baumann