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Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of Automatic Speech Recognition systems to adversarial examples, which can deceive these systems into misinterpreting input speech commands. While previous research has primarily focused on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Aravindhan G , Yuvaraj Govindarajulu , Parin Shah

Speaker recognition systems (SRSs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising significant security concerns. In this work, we systematically investigate transformation and adversarial training based defenses…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Guangke Chen , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Feng Wang , Jiashui Wang

In the last decade, deep neural networks have proven to be very powerful in computer vision tasks, starting a revolution in the computer vision and machine learning fields. However, deep neural networks, usually, are not robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Hao Qiu , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

The emergence of large-scale automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper has greatly expanded their adoption across diverse real-world applications. Ensuring robustness against even minor input perturbations is therefore…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Xiaoxue Gao , Zexin Li , Yiming Chen , Nancy F. Chen

Adversarial attacks are a threat to automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, and it becomes imperative to propose defenses to protect them. In this paper, we perform experiments to show that K2 conformer hybrid ASR is strongly affected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Sonal Joshi , Saurabh Kataria , Yiwen Shao , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Najim Dehak

Deep learning has undoubtedly offered tremendous improvements in the performance of state-of-the-art speech emotion recognition (SER) systems. However, recent research on adversarial examples poses enormous challenges on the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Junaid Qadir

We introduce the problem of adapting a black-box, cloud-based ASR system to speech from a target accent. While leading online ASR services obtain impressive performance on main-stream accents, they perform poorly on sub-populations - we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Kartik Khandelwal , Preethi Jyothi , Abhijeet Awasthi , Sunita Sarawagi

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

Like many other tasks involving neural networks, Speech Recognition models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However recent research has pointed out differences between attacks and defenses on ASR models compared to image models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

High-performance anti-spoofing models for automatic speaker verification (ASV), have been widely used to protect ASV by identifying and filtering spoofing audio that is deliberately generated by text-to-speech, voice conversion, audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Haibin Wu , Andy T. Liu , 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

Many studies have been done to prove the vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial example. A trained and well-behaved model can be fooled by a visually imperceptible perturbation, i.e., an originally correctly classified image could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 YiGui Luo , RuiJia Yang , Wei Sha , WeiYi Ding , YouTeng Sun , YiSi Wang

We focus on the problem of adversarial attacks against models on discrete sequential data in the black-box setting where the attacker aims to craft adversarial examples with limited query access to the victim model. Existing black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Deokjae Lee , Seungyong Moon , Junhyeok Lee , Hyun Oh Song

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an area of growing academic and commercial interest due to the high demand for applications that use it to provide a natural communication method. It is common for general purpose ASR systems to fail in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Rafael Viana-Cámara , Diego Campos-Sobrino , Mario Campos-Soberanis

A deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) aiming to maximize the performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is proposed in this paper. In order to optimize the DNN-based SE model in terms of the character…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Ryosuke Sawata , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Shusuke Takahashi

Robust speaker recognition, including in the presence of malicious attacks, is becoming increasingly important and essential, especially due to the proliferation of several smart speakers and personal agents that interact with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Arindam Jati , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Monisankha Pal , Raghuveer Peri , Wael AbdAlmageed , Shrikanth Narayanan

Face recognition has obtained remarkable progress in recent years due to the great improvement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can cause fateful consequences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Zhu

In this study, we investigate whether noise-augmented training can concurrently improve adversarial robustness in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We conduct a comparative analysis of the adversarial robustness of four different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Karla Pizzi , Matías Pizarro , Asja Fischer

In recent years, extensive research has been conducted on the vulnerability of ASR systems, revealing that black-box adversarial example attacks pose significant threats to real-world ASR systems. However, most existing black-box attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Zheng Fang , Tao Wang , Lingchen Zhao , Shenyi Zhang , Bowen Li , Yunjie Ge , Qi Li , Chao Shen , Qian Wang

We study an important and challenging task of attacking natural language processing models in a hard label black box setting. We propose a decision-based attack strategy that crafts high quality adversarial examples on text classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi