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The Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system is vulnerable to fraudulent activities using audio deepfakes, also known as logical-access voice spoofing attacks. These deepfakes pose a concerning threat to voice biometrics due to recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Awais Khan , Khalid Mahmood Malik

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

Speech-enabled systems typically first convert audio to text through an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model and then feed the text to downstream natural language processing (NLP) modules. The errors of the ASR system can seriously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Tong Cui , Jinghui Xiao , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

The current automatic speaker verification (ASV) task involves making binary decisions on two types of trials: target and non-target. However, emerging advancements in speech generation technology pose significant threats to the reliability…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Jee-weon Jung , Xin Wang , Nicholas Evans , Shinji Watanabe , Hye-jin Shim , Hemlata Tak , Sidhhant Arora , Junichi Yamagishi , Joon Son Chung

Speech recognition systems driven by DNNs have revolutionized human-computer interaction through voice interfaces, which significantly facilitate our daily lives. However, the growing popularity of these systems also raises special concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiahe Lan , Jie Wang , Baochen Yan , Zheng Yan , Elisa Bertino

The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

Voice, as input, has progressively become popular on mobiles and seems to transcend almost entirely text input. Through voice, the voice search (VS) system can provide a more natural way to meet user's information needs. However, errors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yi-Cheng Wang , Tzu-Ting Yang , Hsin-Wei Wang , Bi-Cheng Yan , Berlin Chen

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

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

This work explores backdoor attacks for automatic speech recognition systems where we inject inaudible triggers. By doing so, we make the backdoor attack challenging to detect for legitimate users, and thus, potentially more dangerous. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Stefanos Koffas , Jing Xu , Mauro Conti , Stjepan Picek

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems frequently use a search-based decoding strategy aiming to find the best attainable transcript by considering multiple candidates. One prominent speech recognition decoding heuristic is beam search,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tomer Wullach , Shlomo E. Chazan

We propose Adaptive Randomized Smoothing (ARS) to certify the predictions of our test-time adaptive models against adversarial examples. ARS extends the analysis of randomized smoothing using $f$-Differential Privacy to certify the adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Saiyue Lyu , Shadab Shaikh , Frederick Shpilevskiy , Evan Shelhamer , Mathias Lécuyer

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology is recently finding its way to end-user applications for secure access to personal data, smart services or physical facilities. Similar to other biometric technologies, speaker verification is…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Cemal Hanilci , Tomi Kinnunen , Md Sahidullah , Aleksandr Sizov

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

With the advancement of AI-based speech synthesis technologies such as Deep Voice, there is an increasing risk of voice spoofing attacks, including voice phishing and fake news, through unauthorized use of others' voices. Existing defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Seungmin Kim , Sohee Park , Donghyun Kim , Jisu Lee , Daeseon Choi

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

Extensive research has revealed that adversarial examples (AE) pose a significant threat to voice-controllable smart devices. Recent studies have proposed black-box adversarial attacks that require only the final transcription from an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Peng Cheng , Yuwei Wang , Peng Huang , Zhongjie Ba , Xiaodong Lin , Feng Lin , Li Lu , Kui Ren

Adversarial purification is a successful defense mechanism against adversarial attacks without requiring knowledge of the form of the incoming attack. Generally, adversarial purification aims to remove the adversarial perturbations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Linyang Li , Demin Song , Xipeng Qiu

Advances in automatic speaker verification (ASV) promote research into the formulation of spoofing detection systems for real-world applications. The performance of ASV systems can be degraded severely by multiple types of spoofing attacks,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyu Wang , John H. L. Hansen

Nowadays, machine learning based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technique has widely spread in smartphones, home devices, and public facilities. As convenient as this technology can be, a considerable security issue also raises -- the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Zirui Xu , Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen