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With the surge of social media, maliciously tampered public speeches, especially those from influential figures, have seriously affected social stability and public trust. Existing speech tampering detection methods remain insufficient:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Lingfeng Yao , Chenpei Huang , Shengyao Wang , Junpei Xue , Hanqing Guo , Jiang Liu , Xun Chen , Miao Pan

Prevailing practice in learning-based audio watermarking is to pursue robustness by expanding the set of simulated distortions during training. However, such surrogates are narrow and prone to overfitting. This paper presents AWARE (Audio…

While existing audio watermarking techniques have achieved strong robustness against traditional digital signal processing (DSP) attacks, they remain vulnerable to neural resynthesis. This occurs because modern neural audio codecs act as…

This paper presents the first study on the impact of audio watermarking on spoofing countermeasures. While anti-spoofing systems are essential for securing speech-based applications, the influence of widely used audio watermarking,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhenshan Zhang , Xueping Zhang , Yechen Wang , Liwei Jin , Ming Li

In recent times, communication through the internet has tremendously facilitated the distribution of multimedia data. Although this is indubitably a boon, one of its repercussions is that it has also given impetus to the notorious issue of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Aman Chadha , Sandeep Gangundi , Rishabh Goel , Hiren Dave , M. Mani Roja

We present Timbru, a post-hoc audio watermarking model that achieves state-of-the-art robustness and imperceptibility trade-offs without training an embedder-detector model. Given any 44.1 kHz stereo music snippet, our method performs…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Kyle Fearne , Florian Grötschla , Roger Wattenhofer

Existing audio watermarking methods usually treat the host audio signals of a function of time or frequency individually, while considering them in the joint time-frequency (TF) domain has received less attention. This paper proposes an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Haijian Zhang

Protecting intellectual property (IP) of text such as articles and code is increasingly important, especially as sophisticated attacks become possible, such as paraphrasing by large language models (LLMs) or even unauthorized training of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Gregory Kang Ruey Lau , Xinyuan Niu , Hieu Dao , Jiangwei Chen , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

LLM watermarks stand out as a promising way to attribute ownership of LLM-generated text. One threat to watermark credibility comes from spoofing attacks, where an unauthorized third party forges the watermark, enabling it to falsely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Thibaud Gloaguen , Nikola Jovanović , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

The rapid advancement of deep learning has turned models into highly valuable assets due to their reliance on massive data and costly training processes. However, these models are increasingly vulnerable to leakage and theft, highlighting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yunfei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Zhendong Zhao , Yu Zhou , Xiaoyan Gu , Juan Cao

As a type of biometric identification, a speaker identification (SID) system is confronted with various kinds of attacks. The spoofing attacks typically imitate the timbre of the target speakers, while the adversarial attacks confuse the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qing Wang , Jixun Yao , Li Zhang , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Artificially generated speech is increasingly embedded in everyday life. Voice cloning in particular enables applications where identity preservation is important, such as completing a recording, dubbing in a new language, or preserving the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaitlyn Zhou , Federico Bianchi , Martijn Bartelds , Anna Pot , Yongchan Kwon , James Zou

Audio watermarking is essential for verifying speech authenticity, yet single-watermark schemes often struggle against sophisticated distortions such as neural reconstruction and adversarial attacks. To address this limitation, we introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Zheqi Yuan , Yucheng Huang , Guangzhi Sun , Zengrui Jin , Chao Zhang

Amidst rising concerns about the internet being proliferated with content generated from language models (LMs), watermarking is seen as a principled way to certify whether text was generated from a model. Many recent watermarking techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Saksham Rastogi , Danish Pruthi

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in realistic voice cloning (VC), while they also increase the risk of malicious misuse. Existing proactive defenses designed for traditional VC models aim to disrupt the forgery…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qianyue Hu , Junyan Wu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Automatic detection of synthetic speech is becoming increasingly important as current synthesis methods are both near indistinguishable from human speech and widely accessible to the public. Audio watermarking and other active disclosure…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Lauri Juvela , Xin Wang

The rapid advancement of speech generation models has heightened privacy and security concerns related to voice cloning (VC). Recent studies have investigated disrupting unauthorized voice cloning by introducing adversarial perturbations.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Wei Fan , Kejiang Chen , Chang Liu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

The advancements in audio generative models have opened up new challenges in their responsible disclosure and the detection of their misuse. In response, we introduce a method to watermark latent generative models by a specific watermarking…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Robin San Roman , Pierre Fernandez , Antoine Deleforge , Yossi Adi , Romain Serizel

Voice deepfake attacks, which artificially impersonate human speech for malicious purposes, have emerged as a severe threat. Existing defenses typically inject noise into human speech to compromise voice encoders in speech synthesis models.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuanda Wang , Bocheng Chen , Hanqing Guo , Guangjing Wang , Weikang Ding , Qiben Yan