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The use of deep networks to extract embeddings for speaker recognition has proven successfully. However, such embeddings are susceptible to performance degradation due to the mismatches among the training, enrollment, and test conditions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhong Meng , Yong Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems in practice are greatly vulnerable to spoofing attacks. The latest voice conversion technologies are able to produce perceptually natural sounding speech that mimics any target speakers. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Xiaohai Tian , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

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

Speech and speaker recognition systems are employed in a variety of applications, from personal assistants to telephony surveillance and biometric authentication. The wide deployment of these systems has been made possible by the improved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Hadi Abdullah , Kevin Warren , Vincent Bindschaedler , Nicolas Papernot , Patrick Traynor

Speaker verification is the process by which a speakers claim of identity is tested against a claimed speaker by his or her voice. Speaker verification is done by the use of some parameters (features) from the speakers voice which can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Bhavana V. S , Pradip K. Das

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

Audio adversarial examples (AEs) have posed significant security challenges to real-world speaker recognition systems. Most black-box attacks still require certain information from the speaker recognition model to be effective (e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Rui Duan , Zhe Qu , Leah Ding , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Speaker attribute perturbation offers a feasible approach to asynchronous voice anonymization by employing adversarially perturbed speech as anonymized output. In order to enhance the identity unlinkability among anonymized utterances from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Liping Chen , Chenyang Guo , Rui Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Zhenhua Ling

Speaker verification (SV) systems are currently being used to make sensitive decisions like giving access to bank accounts or deciding whether the voice of a suspect coincides with that of the perpetrator of a crime. Ensuring that these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mariel Estevez , Luciana Ferrer

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

Currently, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are deployed in an extensive range of applications. However, recent studies have demonstrated the possibility of adversarial attack on these models which could potentially suppress or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zheng Jie Wong , Bingquan Shen

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

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) systems, particularly those with voice cloning capabilities, have made voice impersonation readily accessible, raising ethical and legal concerns due to potential misuse for malicious activities like…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hongbin Liu , Youzheng Chen , Arun Narayanan , Athula Balachandran , Pedro J. Moreno , Lun Wang

Adversarial attacks are inputs that are similar to original inputs but altered on purpose. Speech-to-text neural networks that are widely used today are prone to misclassify adversarial attacks. In this study, first, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ken Alparslan , Yigit Alparslan , Matthew Burlick

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

Advances in deep learning have enabled the widespread deployment of speaker recognition systems (SRSs), yet they remain vulnerable to score-based impersonation attacks. Existing attacks that operate directly on raw waveforms require a large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chanwoo Hwang , Sunpill Kim , Yong Kiam Tan , Tianchi Liu , Seunghun Paik , Dongsoo Kim , Mondal Soumik , Khin Mi Mi Aung , Jae Hong Seo

Speaker recognition (SR) is widely used in our daily life as a biometric authentication or identification mechanism. The popularity of SR brings in serious security concerns, as demonstrated by recent adversarial attacks. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Guangke Chen , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Xiaoning Du , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Yang Liu

Speaker verification is to judge the similarity between two unknown voices in an open set, where the ideal speaker embedding should be able to condense discriminant information into a compact utterance-level representation that has small…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Hongyu Wang , Hui Li , Bo Li

Substantial improvements have been achieved in recent years in voice conversion, which converts the speaker characteristics of an utterance into those of another speaker without changing the linguistic content of the utterance. Nonetheless,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Chien-yu Huang , Yist Y. Lin , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

We revisit the privacy-utility tradeoff of x-vector speaker anonymization. Existing approaches quantify privacy through training complex speaker verification or identification models that are later used as attacks. Instead, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Luke Bauer , Wenxuan Bao , Malvika Jadhav , Vincent Bindschaedler