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Various adversarial audio attacks have recently been developed to fool automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We here propose a defense against such attacks based on the uncertainty introduced by dropout in neural networks. We show…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Tejas Jayashankar , Jonathan Le Roux , Pierre Moulin

In light of the widespread application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, their security concerns have received much more attention than ever before, primarily due to the susceptibility of Deep Neural Networks. Previous studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Qi Shen , Kai Ye , Derui Wang , Jie Hao , Ziyao Liu

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

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Xurong Xie , Jianwei Yu , Shansong Liu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

We demonstrate the existence of universal adversarial perturbations, which can fool a family of audio classification architectures, for both targeted and untargeted attack scenarios. We propose two methods for finding such perturbations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Sajjad Abdoli , Luiz G. Hafemann , Jerome Rony , Ismail Ben Ayed , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro L. Koerich

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

Recently, studies show that deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs), which add a small amount of noise to the original audio examples. These AE attacks pose new challenges…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Feng Guo , Zheng Sun , Yuxuan Chen , Lei Ju

Human-machine interaction is increasingly dependent on speech communication. Machine Learning models are usually applied to interpret human speech commands. However, these models can be fooled by adversarial examples, which are inputs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana

Whisper is a recent Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model displaying impressive robustness to both out-of-distribution inputs and random noise. In this work, we show that this robustness does not carry over to adversarial noise. We show…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

Adversarial examples tremendously threaten the availability and integrity of machine learning-based systems. While the feasibility of such attacks has been observed first in the domain of image processing, recent research shows that speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Tom Dörr , Karla Markert , Nicolas M. Müller , Konstantin Böttinger

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models designed by an adversary to cause an incorrect output. So far, adversarial examples have been studied most extensively in the image domain. In this domain, adversarial examples can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yao Qin , Nicholas Carlini , Ian Goodfellow , Garrison Cottrell , Colin Raffel

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, inputs that have been intentionally perturbed to remain visually similar to the source input, but cause a misclassification. It was recently shown that given a dataset and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Jamie Hayes , George Danezis

Adversarial examples (AEs) are crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to inputs such that a machine-learning based classifier incorrectly labels them. They have become a severe threat to the trustworthiness of machine learning.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Qiang Zeng , Jianhai Su , Chenglong Fu , Golam Kayas , Lannan Luo

Given a state-of-the-art deep neural network text classifier, we show the existence of a universal and very small perturbation vector (in the embedding space) that causes natural text to be misclassified with high probability. Unlike images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Hang Gao , Tim Oates

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

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

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

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

As speech translation (ST) systems become increasingly prevalent, understanding their vulnerabilities is crucial for ensuring robust and reliable communication. However, limited work has explored this issue in depth. This paper explores…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chang Liu , Haolin Wu , Xi Yang , Kui Zhang , Cong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Tianwei Zhang , Qing Guo , Jie Zhang

Recent work has shown the possibility of adversarial attacks on automatic speechrecognition (ASR) systems. However, in the vast majority of work in this area, theattacks have been executed only in the digital space, or have involved short…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-18 Joseph Szurley , J. Zico Kolter