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The rapid advancement of generative AI has made audio deepfakes increasingly indistinguishable from authentic human vocals, posing significant threats to persons-of-interest (POI) such as public figures. Current detection systems primarily…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jun Xue , Tong Zhang , Zhuolin Yi , Yihuan Huang , Yi Chai , Yiyang Zhang , Yanzhen Ren

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge (FFSVC 2020) addresses three different research problems under well-defined conditions: far-field text-dependent speaker verification from single microphone array, far-field…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li , Hui Bu , Wei Rao , Rohan Kumar Das , Shrikanth Narayanan , Haizhou Li

In this paper, we propose dictionary attacks against speaker verification - a novel attack vector that aims to match a large fraction of speaker population by chance. We introduce a generic formulation of the attack that can be used with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Mirko Marras , Pawel Korus , Anubhav Jain , Nasir Memon

CAPTCHAs are designed to prevent malicious bot programs from abusing websites. Most online service providers deploy audio CAPTCHAs as an alternative to text and image CAPTCHAs for visually impaired users. However, prior research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Md Imran Hossen , Xiali Hei

Robust speaker recognition, including in the presence of malicious attacks, is becoming increasingly important and essential, especially due to the proliferation of several smart speakers and personal agents that interact with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Arindam Jati , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Monisankha Pal , Raghuveer Peri , Wael AbdAlmageed , Shrikanth Narayanan

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 ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge advances the series by focusing on universal speech enhancement (SE) systems that handle diverse distortions, domains, and input conditions. This overview paper details the challenge's motivation, task…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chenda Li , Wei Wang , Marvin Sach , Wangyou Zhang , Kohei Saijo , Samuele Cornell , Yihui Fu , Zhaoheng Ni , Tim Fingscheidt , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

In contemporary society, voice-controlled devices, such as smartphones and home assistants, have become pervasive due to their advanced capabilities and functionality. The always-on nature of their microphones offers users the convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuchen Liu , Apu Kapadia , Donald Williamson

Collecting speech data is an important step in training speech recognition systems and other speech-based machine learning models. However, the issue of privacy protection is an increasing concern that must be addressed. The current study…

Meetings are a valuable yet challenging scenario for speech applications due to complex acoustic conditions. This paper summarizes the outcomes of the MISP 2025 Challenge, hosted at Interspeech 2025, which focuses on multi-modal,…

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems convert speech into text and can be placed into two broad categories: traditional and fully end-to-end. Both types have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial audio examples that sound benign…

Thanks to the growing availability of spoofing databases and rapid advances in using them, systems for detecting voice spoofing attacks are becoming more and more capable, and error rates close to zero are being reached for the ASVspoof2015…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-05 Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Fuming Fang , Xin Wang , Isao Echizen , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomi Kinnunen

In the past few years, it has been shown that deep learning systems are highly vulnerable under attacks with adversarial examples. Neural-network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are no exception. Targeted and untargeted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Matías Pizarro , Dorothea Kolossa , Asja Fischer

Voice anonymisation can be used to help protect speaker privacy when speech data is shared with untrusted others. In most practical applications, while the voice identity should be sanitised, other attributes such as the spoken content…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Michele Panariello , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

The Fearless Steps Challenge 2019 Phase-1 (FSC-P1) is the inaugural Challenge of the Fearless Steps Initiative hosted by the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS) at the University of Texas at Dallas. The goal of this Challenge is to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Aditya Joglekar , John H. L. Hansen

Evasion attacks pose significant threats to AI systems, exploiting vulnerabilities in machine learning models to bypass detection mechanisms. The widespread use of voice data, including deepfakes, in promising future industries is currently…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chanwoo Park , Chanwoo Kim

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

Despite its broad practical applications such as in fraud prevention, open-set speaker identification (OSI) has received less attention in the speaker recognition community compared to speaker verification (SV). OSI deals with determining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Raghuveer Peri , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Daniel Garcia-Romero

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system is a type of bio-metric authentication. It can be attacked by an intruder, who falsifies data in order to get access to protected information. Countermeasures (CM) are special algorithms that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Petr Grinberg , Vladislav Shikhov

Spoofing detection for automatic speaker verification (ASV), which is to discriminate between live speech and attacks, has received increasing attentions recently. However, all the previous studies have been done on the clean data without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Xiaohai Tian , Zhizheng Wu , Xiong Xiao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li