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This paper presents an adversarial learning method for recognition-synthesis based non-parallel voice conversion. A recognizer is used to transform acoustic features into linguistic representations while a synthesizer recovers output…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

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 speaker verification systems are increasingly used as the primary means to authenticate costumers. Recently, it has been proposed to train speaker verification systems using end-to-end deep neural models. In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Felix Kreuk , Yossi Adi , Moustapha Cisse , Joseph Keshet

The goal of voice anonymization is to modify an audio such that the true identity of its speaker is hidden. Research on this task is typically limited to the same English read speech datasets, thus the efficacy of current methods for other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Sarina Meyer , Ekaterina Kolos , Ngoc Thang Vu

Singing voice conversion is to convert a singer's voice to another one's voice without changing singing content. Recent work shows that unsupervised singing voice conversion can be achieved with an autoencoder-based approach [1]. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chengqi Deng , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

Recent advancements in adversarial attacks have demonstrated their effectiveness in misleading speaker recognition models, making wrong predictions about speaker identities. On the other hand, defense techniques against speaker-adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Liping Chen , Chenyang Guo , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Wu Guo

Recent research has proposed approaches that modify speech to defend against gender inference attacks. The goal of these protection algorithms is to control the availability of information about a speaker's gender, a privacy-sensitive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Loes van Bemmel , Zhuoran Liu , Nik Vaessen , Martha Larson

Recent studies have highlighted audio adversarial examples as a ubiquitous threat to state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition systems. Thorough studies on how to effectively generate adversarial examples are essential to prevent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Xiaolei Liu , Xiaosong Zhang , Kun Wan , Qingxin Zhu , Yufei Ding

This paper proposes an interesting voice and accent joint conversion approach, which can convert an arbitrary source speaker's voice to a target speaker with non-native accent. This problem is challenging as each target speaker only has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Zhichao Wang , Wenshuo Ge , Xiong Wang , Shan Yang , Wendong Gan , Haitao Chen , Hai Li , Lei Xie , Xiulin Li

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

Applying changes to an input speech signal to change the perceived speaker of speech to a target while maintaining the content of the input is a challenging but interesting task known as Voice conversion (VC). Over the last few years, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Olga Slizovskaia , Jordi Janer , Pritish Chandna , Oscar Mayor

Voice authentication has undergone significant changes from traditional systems that relied on handcrafted acoustic features to deep learning models that can extract robust speaker embeddings. This advancement has expanded its applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kamel Kamel , Keshav Sood , Hridoy Sankar Dutta , Sunil Aryal

Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-linguistic information of a source utterance to change the perceived identity of the speaker. While there is a rich literature on VC, most proposed methods are trained and…

Speaker recognition is a popular topic in biometric authentication and many deep learning approaches have achieved extraordinary performances. However, it has been shown in both image and speech applications that deep neural networks are…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Over the last few years, a rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems that adopt voice as the primary user input have emerged. These systems have been shown to be vulnerable to various types of voice spoofing attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Yuan Gong , Christian Poellabauer

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

In contemporary society, voice-controlled devices, such as smartphones and home assistants, have become pervasive due to their advanced capabilities and functionality. The always-on nature of their microphones offers users the convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuchen Liu , Apu Kapadia , Donald Williamson

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

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems use a playback detector to filter out playback attacks and ensure verification reliability. Since current playback detection models are almost always trained using genuine and played-back speech,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Fuming Fang , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

Voice Processing Systems (VPSes), now widely deployed, have been made significantly more accurate through the application of recent advances in machine learning. However, adversarial machine learning has similarly advanced and has been used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Hadi Abdullah , Washington Garcia , Christian Peeters , Patrick Traynor , Kevin R. B. Butler , Joseph Wilson