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Speech models are often trained on sensitive data in order to improve model performance, leading to potential privacy leakage. Our work considers noise masking attacks, introduced by Amid et al. 2022, which attack automatic speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Matthew Jagielski , Om Thakkar , Lun Wang

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: minor perturbations to input samples intended to deliberately cause misclassification. While an obvious security threat, adversarial examples yield as well insights about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kathrin Grosse , David Pfaff , Michael Thomas Smith , Michael Backes

Lately, the self-attention mechanism has marked a new milestone in the field of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Nevertheless, its performance is susceptible to environmental intrusions as the system predicts the next output symbol…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Lujun Li , Yikai Kang , Yuchen Shi , Ludwig Kürzinger , Tobias Watzel , Gerhard Rigoll

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

Unsupervised speech recognition (unsupervised ASR) aims to learn the ASR system with non-parallel speech and text corpus only. Wav2vec-U has shown promising results in unsupervised ASR by self-supervised speech representations coupled with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Guan-Ting Lin , Chan-Jan Hsu , Da-Rong Liu , Hung-Yi Lee , Yu Tsao

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

Adversarial machine learning is an emerging field that focuses on studying vulnerabilities of machine learning approaches in adversarial settings and developing techniques accordingly to make learning robust to adversarial manipulations. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Sirui Lu , Lu-Ming Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

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

Recognizing code-switched speech is challenging for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for a variety of reasons, including the lack of code-switched training data. Recently, we showed that monolingual ASR systems fine-tuned on code-switched…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Gurunath Reddy Madhumani , Sanket Shah , Basil Abraham , Vikas Joshi , Sunayana Sitaram

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

Deep Learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e.\ images obtained via deliberate imperceptible perturbations, such that the model misclassifies them with high confidence. However, class confidence by itself is an incomplete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-23 Ambrish Rawat , Martin Wistuba , Maria-Irina Nicolae

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems based on deep neural networks are weak against adversarial perturbations. We propose mixPGD adversarial training method to improve the robustness of the model for ASR systems. In standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Aminul Huq , Weiyi Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Training deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires large amounts of transcribed speech. This becomes a bottleneck for training robust models for accented speech which typically contains high variability in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Nilaksh Das , Sravan Bodapati , Monica Sunkara , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Duen Horng Chau

Adversarial attacks pose a severe security threat to the state-of-the-art speaker identification systems, thereby making it vital to propose countermeasures against them. Building on our previous work that used representation learning to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Sonal Joshi , Saurabh Kataria , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems in real-world settings need to handle imperfect audio, often degraded by hardware limitations or environmental noise, while accommodating diverse user groups. In human-robot interaction (HRI),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Theresa Pekarek Rosin , Julia Gachot , Henri-Leon Kordt , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

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

Adversarial attacks pose a threat to deep learning models. However, research on adversarial detection methods, especially in the multi-modal domain, is very limited. In this work, we propose an efficient and straightforward detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

State-of-the-art deep neural networks have proven to be highly powerful in a broad range of tasks, including semantic image segmentation. However, these networks are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, i.e., non-perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kira Maag , Asja Fischer