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Despite recent advances in voice separation methods, many challenges remain in realistic scenarios such as noisy recording and the limits of available data. In this work, we propose to explicitly incorporate the phonetic and linguistic…

The widespread application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) supports large-scale voice surveillance, raising concerns about privacy among users. In this paper, we concentrate on using adversarial examples to mitigate unauthorized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Derui Wang , Yedi Zhang , Minhui Xue , Jie Hao , Jin Song Dong , Yixian Yang

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

We construct audio adversarial examples on automatic Speech-To-Text systems . Given any audio waveform, we produce an another by overlaying an audio vocal mask generated from the original audio. We apply our audio adversarial attack to five…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Kai Yuan Tay , Lynnette Ng , Wei Han Chua , Lucerne Loke , Danqi Ye , Melissa Chua

In this work, we demonstrate the existence of universal adversarial audio perturbations that cause mis-transcription of audio signals by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We propose an algorithm to find a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Prakhar Pandey , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Farinaz Koushanfar

We propose a semi-supervised learning method for building end-to-end rich transcription-style automatic speech recognition (RT-ASR) systems from small-scale rich transcription-style and large-scale common transcription-style datasets. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Shota Orihashi , Naoki Makishima

Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) is an interdisciplinary application of computer science and linguistics that enable us to derive the transcription from the uttered speech waveform. It finds several applications in Military like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Priyank Dubey , Bilal Shah

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

This paper investigates the use of target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR) for simultaneous speech recognition and speaker diarization of single-channel dialogue recordings. TS-ASR is a technique to automatically extract and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end speech recognition systems have achieved competitive results compared to traditional systems. However, the complex transformations involved between layers given highly variable acoustic signals are hard to analyze. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Chung-Yi Li , Pei-Chieh Yuan , Hung-Yi Lee

We present a Conformer-based end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) model that uses both acoustic input and features derived from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Two categories of features are explored: features derived directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Aparna Khare , Eunjung Han , Yuguang Yang , Andreas Stolcke

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been widely researched with supervised approaches, while many low-resourced languages lack audio-text aligned data, and supervised methods cannot be applied on them. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yi-Chen Chen , Chia-Hao Shen , Sung-Feng Huang , Hung-yi Lee

We propose a self-speaker adaptation method for streaming multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) that eliminates the need for explicit speaker queries. Unlike conventional approaches requiring target speaker embeddings or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Weiqing Wang , Taejin Park , Ivan Medennikov , Jinhan Wang , Kunal Dhawan , He Huang , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is improving ever more at mimicking human speech processing. The functioning of ASR, however, remains to a large extent obfuscated by the complex structure of the deep neural networks (DNNs) they are based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Karla Markert , Romain Parracone , Mykhailo Kulakov , Philip Sperl , Ching-Yu Kao , Konstantin Böttinger

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

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 have dramatically improved over the last few years. ASR systems are most often trained from 'typical' speech, which means that underrepresented groups don't experience the same level of…

Voice Processing Systems (VPSes), now widely deployed, have been made significantly more accurate through the application of recent advances in machine learning. However, adversarial machine learning has similarly advanced and has been used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Hadi Abdullah , Washington Garcia , Christian Peeters , Patrick Traynor , Kevin R. B. Butler , Joseph Wilson

In Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), textual data is often used alongside audio signals to address their inherent variability. However, the reliance on human annotated text in most research hinders the development of practical SER systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yuanchao Li , Zeyu Zhao , Ondrej Klejch , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai