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An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system based on a deep neural network is vulnerable to attack by an adversarial example, especially if the command-dependent ASR fails. A defense method against adversarial examples is proposed to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mingyu Dong , Diqun Yan , Yongkang Gong , Rangding Wang

In recent years, extensive research has been conducted on the vulnerability of ASR systems, revealing that black-box adversarial example attacks pose significant threats to real-world ASR systems. However, most existing black-box attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Zheng Fang , Tao Wang , Lingchen Zhao , Shenyi Zhang , Bowen Li , Yunjie Ge , Qi Li , Chao Shen , Qian Wang

With the wide use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in applications such as human machine interaction, simultaneous interpretation, audio transcription, etc., its security protection becomes increasingly important. Although recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yuxuan Chen , Jiangshan Zhang , Xuejing Yuan , Shengzhi Zhang , Kai Chen , Xiaofeng Wang , Shanqing Guo

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is constantly gaining attention in recent years due to its potential applications in diverse fields and thanks to the possibility offered by deep learning technologies. However, recent studies have shown…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nicolas Facchinetti , Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras

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

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

A Machine-Critical Application is a system that is fundamentally necessary to the success of specific and sensitive operations such as search and recovery, rescue, military, and emergency management actions. Recent advances in Machine…

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key technology in many services and applications. This typically requires user devices to send their speech data to the cloud for ASR decoding. As the speech signal carries a lot of information about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Emmanuel Vincent

Recent work has illuminated the vulnerability of speaker recognition systems (SRSs) against adversarial attacks, raising significant security concerns in deploying SRSs. However, they considered only a few settings (e.g., some combinations…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Guangke Chen , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Yang Liu

The main motivation for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is efficient interfaces to computers, and for the interfaces to be natural and truly useful, it should provide coverage for a large group of users. The purpose of these tasks is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Urmila Shrawankar , VM Thakare

Current adversarial attacks against speaker recognition systems (SRSs) require either white-box access or heavy black-box queries to the target SRS, thus still falling behind practical attacks against proprietary commercial APIs and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Guangke Chen , Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song

Speech is the fundamental means of communication between humans. The advent of AI and sophisticated speech technologies have led to the rapid proliferation of human-to-computer-based interactions, fueled primarily by Automatic Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Mikel K. Ngueajio , Gloria Washington

While Automatic Speech Recognition has been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, defenses against these attacks are still lagging. Existing, naive defenses can be partially broken with an adaptive attack. In classification tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

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

In light of the widespread application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, their security concerns have received much more attention than ever before, primarily due to the susceptibility of Deep Neural Networks. Previous studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Qi Shen , Kai Ye , Derui Wang , Jie Hao , Ziyao Liu

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

Recently, studies show that deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs), which add a small amount of noise to the original audio examples. These AE attacks pose new challenges…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Feng Guo , Zheng Sun , Yuxuan Chen , Lei Ju

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can be fooled via targeted adversarial examples, which induce the ASR to produce arbitrary transcriptions in response to altered audio signals. However, state-of-the-art adversarial examples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Lea Schönherr , Thorsten Eisenhofer , Steffen Zeiler , Thorsten Holz , Dorothea Kolossa