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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

Audio adversarial examples are audio files that have been manipulated to fool an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, while still sounding benign to a human listener. Most methods to generate such samples are based on a two-step…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Armin Ettenhofer , Jan-Philipp Schulze , Karla Pizzi

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

Machine learning systems and also, specifically, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, where an attacker maliciously changes the input. In the case of ASR systems, the most interesting cases…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Sina Däubener , Lea Schönherr , Asja Fischer , Dorothea Kolossa

In the domain of air traffic control (ATC) systems, efforts to train a practical automatic speech recognition (ASR) model always faces the problem of small training samples since the collection and annotation of speech samples are expert-…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yi Lin , Qin Li , Bo Yang , Zhen Yan , Huachun Tan , Zhengmao Chen

Deep learning models have shown their vulnerability when dealing with adversarial attacks. Existing attacks almost perform on low-level instances, such as pixels and super-pixels, and rarely exploit semantic clues. For face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Shuai Jia , Bangjie Yin , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Chunhua Shen , Xiaokang Yang , Chao Ma

Speech enabled foundation models, either in the form of flexible speech recognition based systems or audio-prompted large language models (LLMs), are becoming increasingly popular. One of the interesting aspects of these models is their…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

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

Recent studies of streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T)-based systems have fed the encoder with past contextual information in order to improve its word error rate (WER) performance. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Alejandro Gomez-Alanis , Lukas Drude , Andreas Schwarz , Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan , Simon Wiesler

Like many other tasks involving neural networks, Speech Recognition models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However recent research has pointed out differences between attacks and defenses on ASR models compared to image models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

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

Addressing the detrimental impact of non-stationary environmental noise on automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a persistent and significant research focus. Despite advancements, this challenge continues to be a major concern.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Noussaiba Djeffal , Djamel Addou , Hamza Kheddar , Sid Ahmed Selouani

The emergence of large-scale automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper has greatly expanded their adoption across diverse real-world applications. Ensuring robustness against even minor input perturbations is therefore…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Xiaoxue Gao , Zexin Li , Yiming Chen , Nancy F. Chen

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

This paper presents an audio visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) system using a Transformer-based architecture. We particularly focus on the scene context provided by the visual information, to ground the ASR. We extract…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Aparna Khare , Shiva Sundaram

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

Computational paralinguistic analysis is increasingly being used in a wide range of cyber applications, including security-sensitive applications such as speaker verification, deceptive speech detection, and medical diagnostics. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Yuan Gong , Christian Poellabauer

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

Machine learning approaches for speech enhancement are becoming increasingly expressive, enabling ever more powerful modifications of input signals. In this paper, we demonstrate that this expressiveness introduces a vulnerability: advanced…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Rostislav Makarov , Lea Schönherr , Timo Gerkmann

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…