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In this work, we simulate a scenario, where a publicly available ASV system is used to enhance mimicry attacks against another closed source ASV system. In specific, ASV technology is used to perform a similarity search between the voices…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Ville Vestman , Tomi Kinnunen , Rosa González Hautamäki , Md Sahidullah

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) is the process of identifying a person based on the voice presented to a system. Different synthetic approaches allow spoofing to deceive ASV systems (ASVs), whether using techniques to imitate a voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Mohammad Adiban , Hossein Sameti , Saeedreza Shehnepoor

Thanks to recent advances in deep learning, sophisticated generation tools exist, nowadays, that produce extremely realistic synthetic speech. However, malicious uses of such tools are possible and likely, posing a serious threat to our…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Alessandro Pianese , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

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

Recent progress in generative AI technology has made audio deepfakes remarkably more realistic. While current research on anti-spoofing systems primarily focuses on assessing whether a given audio sample is fake or genuine, there has been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Nicholas Klein , Tianxiang Chen , Hemlata Tak , Ricardo Casal , Elie Khoury

Automatic speaker verification, like every other biometric system, is vulnerable to spoofing attacks. Using only a few minutes of recorded voice of a genuine client of a speaker verification system, attackers can develop a variety of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Balamurali BT , Kin Wah Edward Lin , Simon Lui , Jer-Ming Chen , Dorien Herremans

Voice authentication has become an integral part in security-critical operations, such as bank transactions and call center conversations. The vulnerability of automatic speaker verification systems (ASVs) to spoofing attacks instigated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Andre Kassis , Urs Hengartner

The performance of spoofing countermeasure systems depends fundamentally upon the use of sufficiently representative training data. With this usually being limited, current solutions typically lack generalisation to attacks encountered in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Hemlata Tak , Massimiliano Todisco , Xin Wang , Jee-weon Jung , Junichi Yamagishi , Nicholas Evans

How secure automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology is? More concretely, given a specific target speaker, how likely is it to find another person who gets falsely accepted as that target? This question may be addressed empirically by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Alexey Sholokhov , Tomi Kinnunen , Ville Vestman , Kong Aik Lee

Voice Authentication (VA), also known as Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV), is a widely adopted authentication method, particularly in automated systems like banking services, where it serves as a secondary layer of user authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Eshaq Jamdar , Amith Kamath Belman

This paper presents a new voice impersonation attack using voice conversion (VC). Enrolling personal voices for automatic speaker verification (ASV) offers natural and flexible biometric authentication systems. Basically, the ASV systems do…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Taiki Nakamura , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Yusuke Ijima , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems are increasingly used in voice bio-metrics for user authentication but are susceptible to logical and physical spoofing attacks, posing security risks. Existing research mainly tackles logical or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Awais Khan , Khalid Mahmood Malik

Malicious actors may seek to use different voice-spoofing attacks to fool ASV systems and even use them for spreading misinformation. Various countermeasures have been proposed to detect these spoofing attacks. Due to the extensive work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Awais Khan , Khalid Mahmood Malik , James Ryan , Mikul Saravanan

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is one of the core technologies in biometric identification. With the ubiquitous usage of ASV systems in safety-critical applications, more and more malicious attackers attempt to launch adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Haibin Wu , Xu Li , Andy T. Liu , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

The technique of transforming voices in order to hide the real identity of a speaker is called voice disguise, among which automatic voice disguise (AVD) by modifying the spectral and temporal characteristics of voices with miscellaneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Linlin Zheng , Jiakang Li , Meng Sun , Xiongwei Zhang , Thomas Fang Zheng

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems, which identify speakers based on their voice characteristics, have numerous applications, such as user authentication in financial transactions, exclusive access control in smart devices, and…

Speech deepfakes are artificial voices generated by machine learning models. Previous literature has highlighted deepfakes as one of the biggest security threats arising from progress in artificial intelligence due to their potential for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Kimberly T. Mai , Sergi D. Bray , Toby Davies , Lewis D. Griffin

The automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures (ASVspoof) challenge series is a community-led initiative which aims to promote the consideration of spoofing and the development of countermeasures. ASVspoof 2021 is the 4th…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Héctor Delgado , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen , Kong Aik Lee , Xuechen Liu , Andreas Nautsch , Jose Patino , Md Sahidullah , Massimiliano Todisco , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

We consider technology-assisted mimicry attacks in the context of automatic speaker verification (ASV). We use ASV itself to select targeted speakers to be attacked by human-based mimicry. We recorded 6 naive mimics for whom we select…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Tomi Kinnunen , Rosa González Hautamäki , Ville Vestman , Md Sahidullah

The rapid spread of media content synthesis technology and the potentially damaging impact of audio and video deepfakes on people's lives have raised the need to implement systems able to detect these forgeries automatically. In this work…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Luigi Attorresi , Davide Salvi , Clara Borrelli , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro