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Due to the widespread deployment of fingerprint/face/speaker recognition systems, attacking deep learning based biometric systems has drawn more and more attention. Previous research mainly studied the attack to the vision-based system,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Jiguo Li , Xinfeng Zhang , Jizheng Xu , Li Zhang , Yue Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Speech is a common and effective way of communication between humans, and modern consumer devices such as smartphones and home hubs are equipped with deep learning based accurate automatic speech recognition to enable natural interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Moustafa Alzantot , Bharathan Balaji , Mani Srivastava

Adversarial attacks have become a major threat for machine learning applications. There is a growing interest in studying these attacks in the audio domain, e.g, speech and speaker recognition; and find defenses against them. In this work,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Jesús Villalba , Sonal Joshi , Piotr Żelasko , Najim Dehak

Voice Recognition Systems (VRSs) employ deep learning for speech recognition and speaker recognition. They have been widely deployed in various real-world applications, from intelligent voice assistance to telephony surveillance and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Baochen Yan , Jiahe Lan , Zheng Yan

The ubiquitous presence of machine learning systems in our lives necessitates research into their vulnerabilities and appropriate countermeasures. In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of adversarial attacks and defenses against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Piotr Żelasko , Sonal Joshi , Yiwen Shao , Jesus Villalba , Jan Trmal , Najim Dehak , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are prevalent, particularly in applications for voice navigation and voice control of domestic appliances. The computational core of ASRs are deep neural networks (DNNs) that have been shown to be…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xiaoliang Wu , Ajitha Rajan

Automatic speech recognition and voice identification systems are being deployed in a wide array of applications, from providing control mechanisms to devices lacking traditional interfaces, to the automatic transcription of conversations…

Automatic speech recognition systems based on neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that alter transcriptions in a malicious way. Recent works in this field have focused on making attacks work in over-the-air scenarios,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Protopopov Alexey

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

A targeted adversarial attack produces audio samples that can force an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to output attacker-chosen text. To exploit ASR models in real-world, black-box settings, an adversary can leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Raphael Olivier , Hadi Abdullah , Bhiksha Raj

Advances in deep learning have introduced a new wave of voice synthesis tools, capable of producing audio that sounds as if spoken by a target speaker. If successful, such tools in the wrong hands will enable a range of powerful attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Emily Wenger , Max Bronckers , Christian Cianfarani , Jenna Cryan , Angela Sha , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

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

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

The development of deep learning technology has greatly promoted the performance improvement of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology, which has demonstrated an ability comparable to human hearing in many tasks. Voice interfaces are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Jinghui Xu , Jifeng Zhu , Yong Yang

This paper presents a brief survey on Automatic Speech Recognition and discusses the major themes and advances made in the past 60 years of research, so as to provide a technological perspective and an appreciation of the fundamental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-01-14 M. A. Anusuya , S. K. Katti

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

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

Now-a-days, speech-based biometric systems such as automatic speaker verification (ASV) are highly prone to spoofing attacks by an imposture. With recent development in various voice conversion (VC) and speech synthesis (SS) algorithms,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dipjyoti Paul , Monisankha Pal , Goutam Saha

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

With the widespread application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks has been extensively studied. However, most existing adversarial examples are generated on specific individual models,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Weifei Jin , Junjie Su , Hejia Wang , Yulin Ye , Jie Hao