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Recent works have revealed the vulnerability of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models to adversarial examples (AEs), i.e., small perturbations that cause an error in the transcription of the audio signal. Studying audio adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Marie Biolková , Bac Nguyen

In this work, we demonstrate the existence of universal adversarial audio perturbations that cause mis-transcription of audio signals by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We propose an algorithm to find a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Prakhar Pandey , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Farinaz Koushanfar

The development of deep learning technology has greatly promoted the performance improvement of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology, which has demonstrated an ability comparable to human hearing in many tasks. Voice interfaces are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Jinghui Xu , Jifeng Zhu , Yong Yang

Audio adversarial examples are audio files that have been manipulated to fool an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, while still sounding benign to a human listener. Most methods to generate such samples are based on a two-step…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Armin Ettenhofer , Jan-Philipp Schulze , Karla Pizzi

Machine learning systems and also, specifically, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, where an attacker maliciously changes the input. In the case of ASR systems, the most interesting cases…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Sina Däubener , Lea Schönherr , Asja Fischer , Dorothea Kolossa

In a transfer-based attack against Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, attacks are unable to access the architecture and parameters of the target model. Existing attack methods are mostly investigated in voice assistant scenarios…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Qi Gege , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Yao Zhu , Binyuan Hui , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

As the popularity of voice user interface (VUI) exploded in recent years, speaker recognition system has emerged as an important medium of identifying a speaker in many security-required applications and services. In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Yi Xie , Cong Shi , Zhuohang Li , Jian Liu , Yingying Chen , Bo Yuan

This paper introduces a novel adversarial algorithm for attacking the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems, namely DeepSpeech, Kaldi, and Lingvo. Our approach is based on developing an extension for the conventional distortion condition…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Automatic Speech Recognition services (ASRs) inherit deep neural networks' vulnerabilities like crafted adversarial examples. Existing methods often suffer from low efficiency because the target phases are added to the entire audio sample,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yuantian Miao , Chao Chen , Lei Pan , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

We propose a novel adversarial speaker adaptation (ASA) scheme, in which adversarial learning is applied to regularize the distribution of deep hidden features in a speaker-dependent (SD) deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model to be close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhong Meng , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

The ubiquitous presence of machine learning systems in our lives necessitates research into their vulnerabilities and appropriate countermeasures. In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of adversarial attacks and defenses against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Piotr Żelasko , Sonal Joshi , Yiwen Shao , Jesus Villalba , Jan Trmal , Najim Dehak , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems must be robust to the myriad types of noises present in real-world environments including environmental noise, room impulse response, special effects as well as attacks by malicious actors…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Muhammad A. Shah , Bhiksha Raj

Previous works have shown that automatic speaker verification (ASV) is seriously vulnerable to malicious spoofing attacks, such as replay, synthetic speech, and recently emerged adversarial attacks. Great efforts have been dedicated to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Haibin Wu , Xu Li , Andy T. Liu , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

Currently, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are deployed in an extensive range of applications. However, recent studies have demonstrated the possibility of adversarial attack on these models which could potentially suppress or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zheng Jie Wong , Bingquan Shen

Recent studies have highlighted adversarial examples as ubiquitous threats to the deep neural network (DNN) based speech recognition systems. In this work, we present a U-Net based attention model, U-Net$_{At}$, to enhance adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiaoli Ma , Chin-Hui Lee

There has been a recent surge in adversarial attacks on deep learning based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. These attacks pose new challenges to deep learning security and have raised significant concerns in deploying ASR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Farinaz Koushanfar

Adversarial perturbations in speech pose a serious threat to automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker verification by introducing subtle waveform modifications that remain imperceptible to humans but can significantly alter system…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Daniyal Kabir Dar , Qiben Yan , Li Xiao , Arun Ross

Deep neural network based speaker recognition systems can easily be deceived by an adversary using minuscule imperceptible perturbations to the input speech samples. These adversarial attacks pose serious security threats to the speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Monisankha Pal , Arindam Jati , Raghuveer Peri , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Wael AbdAlmageed , Shrikanth Narayanan

The widespread application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) supports large-scale voice surveillance, raising concerns about privacy among users. In this paper, we concentrate on using adversarial examples to mitigate unauthorized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Derui Wang , Yedi Zhang , Minhui Xue , Jie Hao , Jin Song Dong , Yixian Yang

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key technology in many services and applications. This typically requires user devices to send their speech data to the cloud for ASR decoding. As the speech signal carries a lot of information about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Emmanuel Vincent