English
Related papers

Related papers: CloneShield: A Framework for Universal Perturbatio…

200 papers

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) systems, particularly those with voice cloning capabilities, have made voice impersonation readily accessible, raising ethical and legal concerns due to potential misuse for malicious activities like…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hongbin Liu , Youzheng Chen , Arun Narayanan , Athula Balachandran , Pedro J. Moreno , Lun Wang

In this paper, we propose MelShield, a robust, in-generation, keyed audio watermarking framework that embeds identifiable signals into AI-generated audio for copyright protection and reliable attribution. Specifically, MelShield operates in…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yutong Jin , Qi Li , Lingshuang Liu , Jianbing Ni

Conventional text-to-speech (TTS) research has predominantly focused on enhancing the quality of synthesized speech for speakers in the training dataset. The challenge of synthesizing lifelike speech for unseen, out-of-dataset speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wenbin Wang , Yang Song , Sanjay Jha

While neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible for the vast majority of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

Artificially generated speech is increasingly embedded in everyday life. Voice cloning in particular enables applications where identity preservation is important, such as completing a recording, dubbing in a new language, or preserving the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaitlyn Zhou , Federico Bianchi , Martijn Bartelds , Anna Pot , Yongchan Kwon , James Zou

Voice interfaces are quickly becoming a common way for people to interact with AI systems. This also brings new security risks, such as prompt injection, social engineering, and harmful voice commands. Traditional security methods rely on…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sumit Ranjan , Sugandha Sharma , Ubaid Abbas , Puneeth N Ail

Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Audio watermarking has been widely applied in copyright protection and source tracing. However, due to the inherent characteristics of audio signals, watermark localization and resistance to desynchronization attacks remain significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenliang Gan , Xiaoxiao Hu , Sheng Li , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Zero-shot text-to-speech models can clone a speaker's timbre from a short reference audio, but they also strongly inherit the speaking style present in the reference. As a result, synthesizing speech with a desired style often requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Haitao Li , Chunxiang Jin , Chenglin Li , Wenhao Guan , Zhengxing Huang , Xie Chen

Voice cloning is a highly desired feature for personalized speech interfaces. Neural network based speech synthesis has been shown to generate high quality speech for a large number of speakers. In this paper, we introduce a neural voice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Sercan O. Arik , Jitong Chen , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Yanqi Zhou

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as GPT-4o now demonstrate a remarkable ability to infer users' locations from public shared images, posing a substantial risk to geoprivacy. Although adversarial perturbations offer a potential defense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xinwei Liu , Xiaojun Jia , Yuan Xun , Simeng Qin , Xiaochun Cao

Synthetic-voice cloning technologies have seen significant advances in recent years, giving rise to a range of potential harms. From small- and large-scale financial fraud to disinformation campaigns, the need for reliable methods to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Sarah Barrington , Romit Barua , Gautham Koorma , Hany Farid

We propose a test-time defense mechanism against adversarial attacks: imperceptible image perturbations that significantly alter the predictions of a model. Unlike existing methods that rely on feature filtering or smoothing, which can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Dong Lao , Yuxiang Zhang , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Yangchao Wu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

In recent years, the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks have brought tremendous convenience. However, the training process of a highly effective model necessitates a substantial quantity of samples, which brings huge potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhisheng Zhang , Pengyang Huang

With the rapid progress in diffusion models, image synthesis has advanced to the stage of zero-shot image-to-image generation, where high-fidelity replication of facial identities or artistic styles can be achieved using just one portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jun Jia , Hongyi Miao , Yingjie Zhou , Wangqiu Zhou , Jianbo Zhang , Linhan Cao , Dandan Zhu , Hua Yang , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Sun , Guangtao Zhai

In this work, we demonstrate the existence of universal adversarial audio perturbations that cause mis-transcription of audio signals by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We propose an algorithm to find a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Prakhar Pandey , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Farinaz Koushanfar

Token-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have emerged as a promising avenue for generating natural and realistic speech, yet they grapple with low pronunciation accuracy, speaking style and timbre inconsistency, and a substantial need for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunhui Wang , Chang Zeng , Bowen Zhang , Ziyang Ma , Yefan Zhu , Zifeng Cai , Jian Zhao , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen

Adaptive text to speech (TTS) can synthesize new voices in zero-shot scenarios efficiently, by using a well-trained source TTS model without adapting it on the speech data of new speakers. Considering seen and unseen speakers have diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Yihan Wu , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Ruihua Song , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

We present CallShield, the first caller identity authentication system that operates entirely at the audio layer, without relying on speech transcription, internet connectivity, or trusted infrastructure. CallShield introduces a real-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mouna Rabh , Yazan Boshmaf , Mashael Alsabah , Shammur Chowdhury , Mohamed Hefeeda , Issa Khalil