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In this study, we investigate whether noise-augmented training can concurrently improve adversarial robustness in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We conduct a comparative analysis of the adversarial robustness of four different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Karla Pizzi , Matías Pizarro , Asja Fischer

Recent works have revealed the vulnerability of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models to adversarial examples (AEs), i.e., small perturbations that cause an error in the transcription of the audio signal. Studying audio adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Marie Biolková , Bac Nguyen

Extensive research has shown that Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable to audio adversarial attacks. Current attacks mainly focus on single-source scenarios, ignoring dual-source scenarios where two people are speaking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zheng Fang , Shenyi Zhang , Tao Wang , Bowen Li , Lingchen Zhao , Zhangyi Wang

Voice interfaces are becoming accepted widely as input methods for a diverse set of devices. This development is driven by rapid improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR), which now performs on par with human listening in many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lea Schönherr , Katharina Kohls , Steffen Zeiler , Thorsten Holz , Dorothea Kolossa

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

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an active field of research due to its large number of applications and the proliferation of interfaces or computing devices that can support speech processing. However, the bulk of applications are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jean Louis K. E. Fendji , Diane C. M. Tala , Blaise O. Yenke , Marcellin Atemkeng

With the increasing deployment of automated and agentic systems, ensuring the adversarial robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models has become critical. We observe that changing the precision of an ASR model during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Matías Pizarro , Raghavan Narasimhan , Asja Fischer

Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. This poses a security concern about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

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

Deep learning has undoubtedly offered tremendous improvements in the performance of state-of-the-art speech emotion recognition (SER) systems. However, recent research on adversarial examples poses enormous challenges on the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Junaid Qadir

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

Adversarial examples seem to be inevitable. These specifically crafted inputs allow attackers to arbitrarily manipulate machine learning systems. Even worse, they often seem harmless to human observers. In our digital society, this poses a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Thorsten Eisenhofer , Lea Schönherr , Joel Frank , Lars Speckemeier , Dorothea Kolossa , Thorsten Holz

Autonomous Vehicles rely on accurate and robust sensor observations for safety critical decision-making in a variety of conditions. Fundamental building blocks of such systems are sensors and classifiers that process ultrasound, RADAR, GPS,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Apostolos Modas , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Pascal Frossard , Andrea Cavallaro

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable to audio adversarial examples that attempt to deceive ASR systems by adding perturbations to benign speech signals. Although an adversarial example and the original benign wave are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Namgyu Park , Sangwoo Ji , Jong Kim

Adversarial examples to speaker recognition (SR) systems are generated by adding a carefully crafted noise to the speech signal to make the system fail while being imperceptible to humans. Such attacks pose severe security risks, making it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Sonal Joshi , Jesús Villalba , Piotr Żelasko , Laureano Moro-Velázquez , Najim Dehak

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

Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) demonstrated how end-to-end systems are able to achieve state-of-the-art performance. There is a trend towards deeper neural networks, however those ASR models are also more complex and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Ludwig Kürzinger , Edgar Ricardo Chavez Rosas , Lujun Li , Tobias Watzel , Gerhard Rigoll

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

Growing at a fast pace, modern autonomous systems will soon be deployed at scale, opening up the possibility for cooperative multi-agent systems. Sharing information and distributing workloads allow autonomous agents to better perform tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 James Tu , Tsunhsuan Wang , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun