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As audio deepfakes transition from research artifacts to widely available commercial tools, robust biometric authentication faces pressing security threats in high-stakes industries. This paper presents a systematic empirical evaluation of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Mengze Hong , Di Jiang , Zeying Xie , Weiwei Zhao , Guan Wang , Chen Jason Zhang

Audio watermarking is increasingly used to verify the provenance of AI-generated content, enabling applications such as detecting AI-generated speech, protecting music IP, and defending against voice cloning. To be effective, audio…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yizhu Wen , Ashwin Innuganti , Aaron Bien Ramos , Hanqing Guo , Qiben Yan

In this research study, we propose a modern artificial intelligence (AI) approach to recognize deepfake voice, also known as generative AI cloned synthetic voice. Our proposed AI technology, called AntiDeepFake, consists of all main…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Enkhtogtokh Togootogtokh , Christian Klasen

Voice authentication has become an integral part in security-critical operations, such as bank transactions and call center conversations. The vulnerability of automatic speaker verification systems (ASVs) to spoofing attacks instigated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Andre Kassis , Urs Hengartner

Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. This poses a security concern about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Now-a-days, speech-based biometric systems such as automatic speaker verification (ASV) are highly prone to spoofing attacks by an imposture. With recent development in various voice conversion (VC) and speech synthesis (SS) algorithms,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dipjyoti Paul , Monisankha Pal , Goutam Saha

The rise of AI voice-cloning technology, particularly audio Real-time Deepfakes (RTDFs), has intensified social engineering attacks by enabling real-time voice impersonation that bypasses conventional enrollment-based authentication. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Govind Mittal , Arthur Jakobsson , Kelly O. Marshall , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

The availability of high-quality, AI-generated audio raises security challenges such as misinformation campaigns and voice-cloning fraud. A key defense against the misuse of AI-generated audio is by watermarking it, so that it can be easily…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kexin Li , Xiao Hu , Ilya Grishchenko , David Lie

The rapid proliferation of generative audio synthesis and editing technologies has raised serious concerns about copyright infringement, data provenance, and the spread of misinformation via deepfake audio. Watermarking offers a proactive…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yixin Liu , Lie Lu , Jihui Jin , Lichao Sun , Andrea Fanelli

With the advancement of AI-based speech synthesis technologies such as Deep Voice, there is an increasing risk of voice spoofing attacks, including voice phishing and fake news, through unauthorized use of others' voices. Existing defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Seungmin Kim , Sohee Park , Donghyun Kim , Jisu Lee , Daeseon Choi

The advancements in generative AI have enabled the improvement of audio synthesis models, including text-to-speech and voice conversion. This raises concerns about its potential misuse in social manipulation and political interference, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Dinh-Thuc Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Recent text-to-speech (TTS) developments have made voice cloning (VC) more realistic, affordable, and easily accessible. This has given rise to many potential abuses of this technology, including Joe Biden's New Hampshire deepfake robocall.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Hashim Ali , Surya Subramani , Hafiz Malik

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems utilize the biometric information in human speech to verify the speaker's identity. The techniques used for performing speaker verification are often vulnerable to malicious attacks that attempt…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yang Gao , Jiachen Lian , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Recent advancements in generative AI, particularly in speech synthesis, have enabled the generation of highly natural-sounding synthetic speech that closely mimics human voices. While these innovations hold promise for applications like…

Voice data generated on instant messaging or social media applications contains unique user voiceprints that may be abused by malicious adversaries for identity inference or identity theft. Existing voice anonymization techniques, e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiangyi Deng , Fei Teng , Yanjiao Chen , Xiaofu Chen , Zhaohui Wang , Wenyuan Xu

The Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system is vulnerable to fraudulent activities using audio deepfakes, also known as logical-access voice spoofing attacks. These deepfakes pose a concerning threat to voice biometrics due to recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Awais Khan , Khalid Mahmood Malik

Voice Processing Systems (VPSes), now widely deployed, have been made significantly more accurate through the application of recent advances in machine learning. However, adversarial machine learning has similarly advanced and has been used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Hadi Abdullah , Washington Garcia , Christian Peeters , Patrick Traynor , Kevin R. B. Butler , Joseph Wilson

Modern voice cloning, also known as zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), can synthesize speech that closely matches a target speaker from only seconds of reference audio, enabling applications such as personalized speech interfaces and dubbing.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Xinting Liao , Hanlin Yu , Deval Pandya , Xiaoxiao Li

Identity, accent, style, and emotions are essential components of human speech. Voice conversion (VC) techniques process the speech signals of two input speakers and other modalities of auxiliary information such as prompts and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xining Song , Zhihua Wei , Rui Wang , Haixiao Hu , Yanxiang Chen , Meng Han

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology is recently finding its way to end-user applications for secure access to personal data, smart services or physical facilities. Similar to other biometric technologies, speaker verification is…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Cemal Hanilci , Tomi Kinnunen , Md Sahidullah , Aleksandr Sizov