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In this work, we aim to enhance the system robustness of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) against adversarially-noisy speech examples. We focus on a rigorous and empirical "closed-model adversarial robustness" setting (e.g.,…

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In this paper we investigate speech denoising as a defense against adversarial attacks on automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Adversarial attacks attempt to force misclassification by adding small perturbations to the original…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Anirudh Sreeram , Nicholas Mehlman , Raghuveer Peri , Dillon Knox , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speech is easily leaked imperceptibly, such as being recorded by mobile phones in different situations. Private content in speech may be maliciously extracted through speech enhancement technology. Speech enhancement technology has…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Mingyu Dong , Diqun Yan , Rangding Wang

A targeted adversarial attack produces audio samples that can force an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to output attacker-chosen text. To exploit ASR models in real-world, black-box settings, an adversary can leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Raphael Olivier , Hadi Abdullah , Bhiksha Raj

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper addresses detection and defence against targeted white-box attacks on speech signals for ASR systems. While existing work has utilised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Nikolai L. Kühne , Astrid H. F. Kitchen , Marie S. Jensen , Mikkel S. L. Brøndt , Martin Gonzalez , Christophe Biscio , Zheng-Hua Tan

Machine learning approaches for speech enhancement are becoming increasingly expressive, enabling ever more powerful modifications of input signals. In this paper, we demonstrate that this expressiveness introduces a vulnerability: advanced…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Rostislav Makarov , Lea Schönherr , Timo Gerkmann

Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. This poses a security concern about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is one of the core technologies in biometric identification. With the ubiquitous usage of ASV systems in safety-critical applications, more and more malicious attackers attempt to launch adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Haibin Wu , Xu Li , Andy T. Liu , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

Adversarial machine learning research has recently demonstrated the feasibility to confuse automatic speech recognition (ASR) models by introducing acoustically imperceptible perturbations to audio samples. To help researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Nilaksh Das , Madhuri Shanbhogue , Shang-Tse Chen , Li Chen , Michael E. Kounavis , Duen Horng Chau

With the development of hardware and algorithms, ASR(Automatic Speech Recognition) systems evolve a lot. As The models get simpler, the difficulty of development and deployment become easier, ASR systems are getting closer to our life. On…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xiao Zhang , Hao Tan , Xuan Huang , Denghui Zhang , Keke Tang , Zhaoquan Gu

Speech and speaker recognition systems are employed in a variety of applications, from personal assistants to telephony surveillance and biometric authentication. The wide deployment of these systems has been made possible by the improved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Hadi Abdullah , Kevin Warren , Vincent Bindschaedler , Nicolas Papernot , Patrick Traynor

Automatic recognition of disordered speech remains a highly challenging task to date. The underlying neuro-motor conditions, often compounded with co-occurring physical disabilities, lead to the difficulty in collecting large quantities of…

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Computational paralinguistic analysis is increasingly being used in a wide range of cyber applications, including security-sensitive applications such as speaker verification, deceptive speech detection, and medical diagnostics. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Yuan Gong , Christian Poellabauer

A Machine-Critical Application is a system that is fundamentally necessary to the success of specific and sensitive operations such as search and recovery, rescue, military, and emergency management actions. Recent advances in Machine…

In authentication scenarios, applications of practical speaker verification systems usually require a person to read a dynamic authentication text. Previous studies played an audio adversarial example as a digital signal to perform physical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Weiyi Zhang , Shuning Zhao , Le Liu , Jianmin Li , Xingliang Cheng , Thomas Fang Zheng , Xiaolin Hu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely and successfully adopted and deployed in various applications of speech recognition. Recently, a few works revealed that these models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversaries can…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hanbo Cai , Pengcheng Zhang , Hai Dong , Yan Xiao , Stefanos Koffas , Yiming Li

Sparse attacks are to optimize the magnitude of adversarial perturbations for fooling deep neural networks (DNNs) involving only a few perturbed pixels (i.e., under the l0 constraint), suitable for interpreting the vulnerability of DNNs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fudong Lin , Jiadong Lou , Hao Wang , Brian Jalaian , Xu Yuan

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Dengfeng Ke , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu1

Understanding the actions of both humans and artificial intelligence (AI) agents is important before modern AI systems can be fully integrated into our daily life. In this paper, we show that, despite their current huge success, deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Nodens Koren , Qiuhong Ke , Yisen Wang , James Bailey , Xingjun Ma