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There has been a recent surge in adversarial attacks on deep learning based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. These attacks pose new challenges to deep learning security and have raised significant concerns in deploying ASR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Farinaz Koushanfar

Black-box adversarial attacks have demonstrated strong potential to compromise machine learning models by iteratively querying the target model or leveraging transferability from a local surrogate model. Recently, such attacks can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hanbin Hong , Xinyu Zhang , Binghui Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong

Though deep neural networks perform challenging tasks excellently, they are susceptible to adversarial examples, which mislead classifiers by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on clean inputs. Under the query-free black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Zifei Zhang , Kai Qiao , Jian Chen , Ningning Liang

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

Adversarial attacks are a threat to automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, and it becomes imperative to propose defenses to protect them. In this paper, we perform experiments to show that K2 conformer hybrid ASR is strongly affected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Sonal Joshi , Saurabh Kataria , Yiwen Shao , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Najim Dehak

Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of Automatic Speech Recognition systems to adversarial examples, which can deceive these systems into misinterpreting input speech commands. While previous research has primarily focused on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Aravindhan G , Yuvaraj Govindarajulu , Parin Shah

End-to-end models for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) have not been sufficiently well-explored in prior work. With end-to-end models, one could choose to preprocess the input speech using speech enhancement techniques and train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Archiki Prasad , Preethi Jyothi , Rajbabu Velmurugan

Whisper is a recent Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model displaying impressive robustness to both out-of-distribution inputs and random noise. In this work, we show that this robustness does not carry over to adversarial noise. We show…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

Speaker recognition (SR) is widely used in our daily life as a biometric authentication or identification mechanism. The popularity of SR brings in serious security concerns, as demonstrated by recent adversarial attacks. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Guangke Chen , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Xiaoning Du , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Yang Liu

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

Adversarial examples exhibit cross-model transferability, enabling threatening black-box attacks on commercial models. Model ensembling, which attacks multiple surrogate models, is a known strategy to improve this transferability. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Chuan Liu , Huanran Chen , Yichi Zhang , Jun Zhu , Yinpeng Dong

An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system based on a deep neural network is vulnerable to attack by an adversarial example, especially if the command-dependent ASR fails. A defense method against adversarial examples is proposed to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mingyu Dong , Diqun Yan , Yongkang Gong , Rangding Wang

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

Adversarial transferability remains a critical challenge in evaluating the robustness of deep neural networks. In security-critical applications, transferability enables black-box attacks without access to model internals, making it a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

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

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) aims to transcribe speech while assigning transcripts to the corresponding speakers accurately. Existing methods often rely on complex modular systems or require extensive fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems based on deep neural networks are weak against adversarial perturbations. We propose mixPGD adversarial training method to improve the robustness of the model for ASR systems. In standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Aminul Huq , Weiyi Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

With the wide use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in applications such as human machine interaction, simultaneous interpretation, audio transcription, etc., its security protection becomes increasingly important. Although recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yuxuan Chen , Jiangshan Zhang , Xuejing Yuan , Shengzhi Zhang , Kai Chen , Xiaofeng Wang , Shanqing Guo

High-performance anti-spoofing models for automatic speaker verification (ASV), have been widely used to protect ASV by identifying and filtering spoofing audio that is deliberately generated by text-to-speech, voice conversion, audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Haibin Wu , Andy T. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

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