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Despite improvements in automatic speaker verification (ASV), vulnerability against spoofing attacks remains a major concern. In this study, we investigate the integration of ASV and countermeasure (CM) subsystems into a modular spoof-aware…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Oguzhan Kurnaz , Tomi Kinnunen , Cemal Hanilci

The rapid advancement of generative AI has made audio deepfakes increasingly indistinguishable from authentic human vocals, posing significant threats to persons-of-interest (POI) such as public figures. Current detection systems primarily…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jun Xue , Tong Zhang , Zhuolin Yi , Yihuan Huang , Yi Chai , Yiyang Zhang , Yanzhen Ren

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system is a type of bio-metric authentication. It can be attacked by an intruder, who falsifies data in order to get access to protected information. Countermeasures (CM) are special algorithms that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Petr Grinberg , Vladislav Shikhov

This paper describes the UZH-CL system submitted to the SASV section of the WildSpoof 2026 challenge. The challenge focuses on the integrated defense against generative spoofing attacks by requiring the simultaneous verification of speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Aref Farhadipour , Ming Jin , Valeriia Vyshnevetska , Xiyang Li , Elisa Pellegrino , Srikanth Madikeri

This paper describes our proposed integration system for the spoofing-aware speaker verification challenge. It consists of a robust spoofing-aware verification system that use the speaker verification and antispoofing embeddings extracted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Juan M. Martín-Doñas , Iván G. Torre , Aitor Álvarez , Joaquin Arellano

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are vulnerable to spoofing attacks. We propose a spoofing-robust ASV system optimized directly for the recently introduced architecture-agnostic detection cost function (a-DCF), which allows…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Oğuzhan Kurnaz , Jagabandhu Mishra , Tomi H. Kinnunen , Cemal Hanilçi

ASV (automatic speaker verification) systems are intrinsically required to reject both non-target (e.g., voice uttered by different speaker) and spoofed (e.g., synthesised or converted) inputs. However, there is little consideration for how…

This paper presents a simple but effective method that uses multi-resolution feature maps with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for anti-spoofing in automatic speaker verification (ASV). The central idea is to alleviate the problem that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Qiongqiong Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Takafumi Koshinaka

The common standard for quality evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is reference-based metrics such as the Word Error Rate (WER), computed using manual ground-truth transcriptions that are time-consuming and expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Thiago Ferreira , Ahmet Gunduz , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny , Golara Javadi

One of the most crucial components in the field of biometric security is the automatic speaker verification system, which is based on the speaker's voice. It is possible to utilise ASVs in isolation or in conjunction with other AI models.…

Accurately finding the wrong words in the automatic speech recognition (ASR) hypothesis and recovering them well-founded is the goal of speech error correction. In this paper, we propose a non-autoregressive speech error correction method.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yuchun Shu , Bo Hu , Yifeng He , Hao Shi , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

ASVspoof, now in its third edition, is a series of community-led challenges which promote the development of countermeasures to protect automatic speaker verification (ASV) from the threat of spoofing. Advances in the 2019 edition include:…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Massimiliano Todisco , Xin Wang , Ville Vestman , Md Sahidullah , Hector Delgado , Andreas Nautsch , Junichi Yamagishi , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen , Kong Aik Lee

Research in the past several years has boosted the performance of automatic speaker verification systems and countermeasure systems to deliver low Equal Error Rates (EERs) on each system. However, research on joint optimization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zhongwei Teng , Quchen Fu , Jules White , Maria E. Powell , Douglas C. Schmidt

In this paper, we perform an in-depth study of how data augmentation techniques improve synthetic or spoofed audio detection. Specifically, we propose methods to deal with channel variability, different audio compressions, different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ariel Cohen , Inbal Rimon , Eran Aflalo , Haim Permuter

This study aims to develop a single integrated spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) embeddings that satisfy two aspects. First, rejecting non-target speakers' input as well as target speakers' spoofed inputs should be addressed.…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are known to be sensitive to the sociolinguistic variability of speech data, in which gender plays a crucial role. This can result in disparities in recognition accuracy between male and female…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Dennis Fucci , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Mauro Cettolo , Luisa Bentivogli

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often falter while processing stuttering-related disfluencies -- such as involuntary blocks and word repetitions -- yielding inaccurate transcripts. A critical barrier to progress is the scarcity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra , Megan Arney , J. Scott Yaruss , Caryn Herring , Jia Bin

Speech foundation models (SFMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for various speech tasks in supervised (e.g. Whisper) or self-supervised systems (e.g. WavLM). However, the performance of SFMs for child ASR has not been systematically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Ruchao Fan , Natarajan Balaji Shankar , Abeer Alwan

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

Fake audio attack becomes a major threat to the speaker verification system. Although current detection approaches have achieved promising results on dataset-specific scenarios, they encounter difficulties on unseen spoofing data.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Haoxin Ma , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai , Zhengkun Tian , Chenglong Wang