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Recent advancements in speech synthesis technology have enriched our daily lives, with high-quality and human-like audio widely adopted across real-world applications. However, malicious exploitation like voice-cloning fraud poses severe…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhisheng Zhang , Derui Wang , Yifan Mi , Zhiyong Wu , Jie Gao , Yuxin Cao , Kai Ye , Minhui Xue , Jie Hao

Preference alignment is pivotal for empowering large language models (LLMs) to generate helpful and harmless responses. However, the performance of preference alignment is highly sensitive to the prevalent noise in the preference data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Xize Liang , Chao Chen , Shuang Qiu , Jie Wang , Yue Wu , Zhihang Fu , Zhihao Shi , Feng Wu , Jieping Ye

The rapid advancements in AI voice cloning, fueled by machine learning, have significantly impacted text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) fields. While these developments have led to notable progress, they have also raised concerns…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Qingyuan Fei , Wenjie Hou , Xuan Hai , Xin Liu

In this paper we propose a novel defense approach against end-to-end adversarial attacks developed to fool advanced speech-to-text systems such as DeepSpeech and Lingvo. Unlike conventional defense approaches, the proposed approach does not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Recently, speech assistant and speech verification have been used in many fields, which brings much benefit and convenience for us. However, when we enjoy these speech applications, our speech may be collected by attackers for speech…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuwen Pu , Zhou Feng , Chunyi Zhou , Jiahao Chen , Chunqiang Hu , Haibo Hu , Shouling Ji

The state-of-art models for speech synthesis and voice conversion are capable of generating synthetic speech that is perceptually indistinguishable from bonafide human speech. These methods represent a threat to the automatic speaker…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Moustafa Alzantot , Ziqi Wang , Mani B. Srivastava

Recent advances in generative models have amplified the risk of malicious misuse of speech synthesis technologies, enabling adversaries to impersonate target speakers and access sensitive resources. Although speech deepfake detection has…

Recent advances in AI-generated voices have intensified the challenge of detecting deepfake audio, posing risks for scams and the spread of disinformation. To tackle this issue, we establish the largest public voice dataset to date, named…

This study investigates a counterintuitive phenomenon in adversarial machine learning: the potential for noise-based defenses to inadvertently aid evasion attacks in certain scenarios. While randomness is often employed as a defensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Steve Bakos , Pooria Madani , Heidar Davoudi

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

Advances in speech synthesis technologies, like text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), have made detecting deepfake speech increasingly challenging. Spoofing countermeasures often struggle to generalize effectively, particularly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Wen Huang , Yanmei Gu , Zhiming Wang , Huijia Zhu , Yanmin Qian

Pretrained language models have significantly advanced performance across various natural language processing tasks. However, adversarial attacks continue to pose a critical challenge to systems built using these models, as they can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhenhao Li , Huichi Zhou , Marek Rei , Lucia Specia

As speech translation (ST) systems become increasingly prevalent, understanding their vulnerabilities is crucial for ensuring robust and reliable communication. However, limited work has explored this issue in depth. This paper explores…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chang Liu , Haolin Wu , Xi Yang , Kui Zhang , Cong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Tianwei Zhang , Qing Guo , Jie Zhang

Adversarial perturbations in speech pose a serious threat to automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker verification by introducing subtle waveform modifications that remain imperceptible to humans but can significantly alter system…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Daniyal Kabir Dar , Qiben Yan , Li Xiao , Arun Ross

Various forefront countermeasure methods for automatic speaker verification (ASV) with considerable performance in anti-spoofing are proposed in the ASVspoof 2019 challenge. However, previous work has shown that countermeasure models are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Haibin Wu , Songxiang Liu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

Noise robustness is essential for deploying automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in real-world environments. One way to reduce the effect of noise interference is to employ a preprocessing module that conducts speech enhancement, and…

The rapid progress in personalized speech generation technology, including personalized text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), poses a challenge in distinguishing between generated and real speech for human listeners, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Shihao Chen , Liping Chen , Jie Zhang , KongAik Lee , Zhenhua Ling , Lirong Dai

Due to the development of machine learning and speech processing, speech emotion recognition has been a popular research topic in recent years. However, the speech data cannot be protected when it is uploaded and processed on servers in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Yi Chang , Sofiane Laridi , Zhao Ren , Gregory Palmer , Björn W. Schuller , Marco Fisichella

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

Over the last few years, a rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems that adopt voice as the primary user input have emerged. These systems have been shown to be vulnerable to various types of voice spoofing attacks.…

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