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Due to the successful application of deep learning, audio spoofing detection has made significant progress. Spoofed audio with speech synthesis or voice conversion can be well detected by many countermeasures. However, an automatic speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Lian Huang , Chi-Man Pun

Audio plays a crucial role in applications like speaker verification, voice-enabled smart devices, and audio conferencing. However, audio manipulations, such as deepfakes, pose significant risks by enabling the spread of misinformation. Our…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Kutub Uddin , Awais Khan , Muhammad Umar Farooq , Khalid Malik

Adversarial attacks have become a major threat for machine learning applications. There is a growing interest in studying these attacks in the audio domain, e.g, speech and speaker recognition; and find defenses against them. In this work,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Jesús Villalba , Sonal Joshi , Piotr Żelasko , Najim Dehak

Neural models enjoy widespread use across a variety of tasks and have grown to become crucial components of many industrial systems. Despite their effectiveness and extensive popularity, they are not without their exploitable flaws.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Krishan Rajaratnam , Jugal Kalita

In this work, we propose a multi-target backdoor attack against speaker identification using position-independent clicking sounds as triggers. Unlike previous single-target approaches, our method targets up to 50 speakers simultaneously,…

Smart devices serviced by large-scale AI models necessitates user data transfer to the cloud for inference. For speech applications, this means transferring private user information, e.g., speaker identity. Our paper proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Md Asif Jalal , Pablo Peso Parada , Jisi Zhang , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Mete Ozay , Myoungji Han , Jung In Lee , Seokyeong Jung

Voice Authentication (VA), also known as Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV), is a widely adopted authentication method, particularly in automated systems like banking services, where it serves as a secondary layer of user authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Eshaq Jamdar , Amith Kamath Belman

Faced with the threat of identity leakage during voice data publishing, users are engaged in a privacy-utility dilemma when enjoying convenient voice services. Existing studies employ direct modification or text-based re-synthesis to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Meng Chen , Li Lu , Jiadi Yu , Yingying Chen , Zhongjie Ba , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) plays a critical role in security-sensitive environments. Regrettably, the reliability of ASV has been undermined by the emergence of spoofing attacks, such as replay and synthetic speech, as well as…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Haibin Wu , Jiawen Kang , Lingwei Meng , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

This paper investigates methods to effectively retrieve speaker information from the personalized speaker adapted neural network acoustic models (AMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR). This problem is especially important in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Natalia Tomashenko , Salima Mdhaffar , Marc Tommasi , Yannick Estève , Jean-François Bonastre

Speech recognition in cocktail-party environments remains a significant challenge for state-of-the-art speech recognition systems, as it is extremely difficult to extract an acoustic signal of an individual speaker from a background of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-17 Guan-Lin Chao , William Chan , Ian Lane

It is perhaps no longer surprising that machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, are particularly vulnerable to attacks. One such vulnerability that has been well studied is model extraction: a phenomenon in which the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tejumade Afonja , Lucas Bourtoule , Varun Chandrasekaran , Sageev Oore , Nicolas Papernot

The past few years have witnessed the significant advances of speech synthesis and voice conversion technologies. However, such technologies can undermine the robustness of broadly implemented biometric identification models and can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Haibin Wu , Heng-Cheng Kuo , Naijun Zheng , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Hung-Yi Lee , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Helen Meng

In this paper, we initiate the concern of enhancing the spoofing robustness of the automatic speaker verification (ASV) system, without the primary presence of a separate countermeasure module. We start from the standard ASV framework of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Xuechen Liu , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

Voice timbre attribute detection (vTAD) is the task of determining the relative intensity of timbre attributes between speech utterances. Voice timbre is a crucial yet inherently complex component of speech perception. While deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Aemon Yat Fei Chiu , Yujia Xiao , Qiuqiang Kong , Tan Lee

Despite the excellent performance of neural-network-based audio source separation methods and their wide range of applications, their robustness against intentional attacks has been largely neglected. In this work, we reformulate various…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoya Takahashi , Shota Inoue , Yuki Mitsufuji

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a Cycle-GAN based voice converter (VC) on four speaker identification (SID) systems and an automated speech recognition (ASR) system for various purposes. Audio samples converted by the VC model are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Gokce Keskin , Tyler Lee , Cory Stephenson , Oguz H. Elibol

A number of studies have successfully developed speaker verification or presentation attack detection systems. However, studies integrating the two tasks remain in the preliminary stages. In this paper, we propose two approaches for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Hye-jin Shim , Jee-weon Jung , Ju-ho Kim , Seung-bin Kim , Ha-Jin Yu

Automatic speaker verification is susceptible to various manipulations and spoofing, such as text-to-speech synthesis, voice conversion, replay, tampering, adversarial attacks, and so on. We consider a new spoofing scenario called "Partial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Lin Zhang , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Nicholas Evans , Junichi Yamagishi

As a form of biometric authentication technology, the security of speaker verification systems is of utmost importance. However, SV systems are inherently vulnerable to various types of attacks that can compromise their accuracy and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qing Wang , Hongmei Guo , Jian Kang , Mengjie Du , Jie Li , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Lei Xie