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Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is a well developed technology for biometric identification, and has been ubiquitous implemented in security-critic applications, such as banking and access control. However, previous works have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Haibin Wu , Yang Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Dong Wang , Hung-yi Lee

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems convert speech into text and can be placed into two broad categories: traditional and fully end-to-end. Both types have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial audio examples that sound benign…

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of deep neural networks: A small adversarial perturbation that is imperceptible to human can easily make a well-trained deep neural network misclassify. This makes it unsafe to apply neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Xuanqing Liu , Minhao Cheng , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

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

Neural sequence-to-sequence automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are in principle open vocabulary systems, when using appropriate modeling units. In practice, however, they often fail to recognize words not seen during training, e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Christian Huber , Rishu Kumar , Ondřej Bojar , Alexander Waibel

Recently, fake audio detection has gained significant attention, as advancements in speech synthesis and voice conversion have increased the vulnerability of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems to spoofing attacks. A key challenge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Ju Yeon Kang , Ji Won Yoon , Semin Kim , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

It is critical to understand the privacy and robustness vulnerabilities of machine learning models, as their implementation expands in scope. In membership inference attacks, adversaries can determine whether a particular set of data was…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Michael Lomnitz , Nina Lopatina , Paul Gamble , Zigfried Hampel-Arias , Lucas Tindall , Felipe A. Mejia , Maria Alejandra Barrios

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

Compared with automatic speech recognition (ASR), the human auditory system is more adept at handling noise-adverse situations, including environmental noise and channel distortion. To mimic this adeptness, auditory models have been widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Peng Dai , Xue Teng , Frank Rudzicz , Ing Yann Soon

Deep neural networks represent the state of the art in machine learning in a growing number of fields, including vision, speech and natural language processing. However, recent work raises important questions about the robustness of such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Zhinus Marzi , Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

This article will discuss the use of attacks on a neural network trained on audio data, as well as possible methods of protection against these attacks. FGSM, PGD and CW attacks, as well as data poisoning, will be considered. Within the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 A. Korenev , G. Belokrylov , B. Lodonova , A. Novokhrestov

A powerful category of (invisible) data poisoning attacks modify a subset of training examples by small adversarial perturbations to change the prediction of certain test-time data. Existing defense mechanisms are not desirable to deploy in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tian Yu Liu , Yu Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Growing interest in automatic speaker verification (ASV)systems has lead to significant quality improvement of spoofing attackson them. Many research works confirm that despite the low equal er-ror rate (EER) ASV systems are still…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Galina Lavrentyeva , Sergey Novoselov , Konstantin Simonchik

Audio processing models based on deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks even when the adversarial audio waveform is 99.9% similar to a benign sample. Given the wide application of DNN-based audio recognition systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Victor Akinwande , Celia Cintas , Skyler Speakman , Srihari Sridharan

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

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent a growing menace to modern digital infrastructure. Unlike traditional cyberattacks, APTs are stealthy, adaptive, and long-lasting, often bypassing signature-based detection systems. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Talal Rahwan

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

Deep neural networks have been shown to suffer from critical vulnerabilities under adversarial attacks. This phenomenon stimulated the creation of different attack and defense strategies similar to those adopted in cyberspace security. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ruoxi Qin , Linyuan Wang , Xingyuan Chen , Xuehui Du , Bin Yan

Deep noise suppression (DNS) models enjoy widespread use throughout a variety of high-stakes speech applications. However, we show that four recent DNS models can each be reduced to outputting unintelligible gibberish through the addition…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Will Schwarzer , Neel Chaudhari , Philip S. Thomas , Andrea Fanelli , Xiaoyu Liu

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