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Adversarial machine learning research has recently demonstrated the feasibility to confuse automatic speech recognition (ASR) models by introducing acoustically imperceptible perturbations to audio samples. To help researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Nilaksh Das , Madhuri Shanbhogue , Shang-Tse Chen , Li Chen , Michael E. Kounavis , Duen Horng Chau

The ubiquitous presence of machine learning systems in our lives necessitates research into their vulnerabilities and appropriate countermeasures. In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of adversarial attacks and defenses against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Piotr Żelasko , Sonal Joshi , Yiwen Shao , Jesus Villalba , Jan Trmal , Najim Dehak , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Speaker anonymization seeks to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving the utility of their speech. The achieved privacy is commonly evaluated with a speaker recognition model trained on anonymized speech. Although this represents a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Carlos Franzreb , Arnab Das , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Möller

Navigating the challenges of data-driven speech processing, one of the primary hurdles is accessing reliable pathological speech data. While public datasets appear to offer solutions, they come with inherent risks of potential unintended…

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

In this report, we describe our submitted system for track 2 of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022 (VoxSRC-22). We fuse a variety of good-performing models ranging from supervised models to self-supervised learning(SSL)…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Gang Liu , Tianyan Zhou , Yong Zhao , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Yao Qian , Jian Wu

Speaker embeddings are ubiquitous, with applications ranging from speaker recognition and diarization to speech synthesis and voice anonymisation. The amount of information held by these embeddings lends them versatility, but also raises…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Francisco Teixeira , Alberto Abad , Bhiksha Raj , Isabel Trancoso

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems use a playback detector to filter out playback attacks and ensure verification reliability. Since current playback detection models are almost always trained using genuine and played-back speech,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Fuming Fang , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

This paper describes our submission to Task 1 of the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) challenge 2020. Task 1 is a text-dependent speaker verification task, where both the speaker and phrase are required to be verified. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sung Hwan Mun , Woo Hyun Kang , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven audio attacks has revealed new security vulnerabilities in voice control systems. While researchers have introduced a multitude of attack strategies targeting voice control systems (VCS),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yuanda Wang , Qiben Yan , Nikolay Ivanov , Xun Chen

We present the third edition of the VoiceMOS Challenge, a scientific initiative designed to advance research into automatic prediction of human speech ratings. There were three tracks. The first track was on predicting the quality of…

Logical Access (LA) attacks, also known as audio deepfake attacks, use Text-to-Speech (TTS) or Voice Conversion (VC) methods to generate spoofed speech data. This can represent a serious threat to Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV)…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Anacin , Angela , Shruti Kshirsagar , Anderson R. Avila

In speech technologies, speaker's voice representation is used in many applications such as speech recognition, voice conversion, speech synthesis and, obviously, user authentication. Modern vocal representations of the speaker are based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Paul-Gauthier Noé , Mohammad Mohammadamini , Driss Matrouf , Titouan Parcollet , Andreas Nautsch , Jean-François Bonastre

This paper reports on the design and outcomes of the ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids. The scenario was a listener attending to a target speaker in a noisy, domestic environment. There were multiple…

This paper describes speaker verification (SV) systems submitted by the SpeakIn team to the Task 1 and Task 2 of the Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge 2022 (FFSVC2022). SV tasks of the challenge focus on the problem of fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Yu Zheng , Jinghan Peng , Yihao Chen , Yajun Zhang , Jialong Wang , Min Liu , Minqiang Xu

Automatic speaker verification, like every other biometric system, is vulnerable to spoofing attacks. Using only a few minutes of recorded voice of a genuine client of a speaker verification system, attackers can develop a variety of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Balamurali BT , Kin Wah Edward Lin , Simon Lui , Jer-Ming Chen , Dorien Herremans

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

Voice Service Providers (VSPs) participating in VoIP peering frequently want to withhold their identity and related privacy-sensitive information from other parties during the VoIP communication. A number of existing documents on VoIP…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-07-09 Charles Shen , Henning Schulzrinne

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

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems can be used for voice-enabled applications for identity verification. However, recent studies have exposed these systems' vulnerabilities to both over-the-line (OTL) and over-the-air (OTA)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Li Wang , Xiaoyan Lei , Haorui He , Lei Wang , Jie Shi , Zhizheng Wu