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Advancement in speech technology has brought convenience to our life. However, the concern is on the rise as speech signal contains multiple personal attributes, which would lead to either sensitive information leakage or bias toward…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Yu-Lin Huang , Bo-Hao Su , Y. -W. Peter Hong , Chi-Chun Lee

The task of the challenge is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker's voice identity while protecting linguistic content and emotional states. The organizers provide development and evaluation…

Automatic speech recognition systems have created exciting possibilities for applications, however they also enable opportunities for systematic eavesdropping. We propose a method to camouflage a person's voice over-the-air from these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Mia Chiquier , Chengzhi Mao , Carl Vondrick

Various adversarial audio attacks have recently been developed to fool automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We here propose a defense against such attacks based on the uncertainty introduced by dropout in neural networks. We show…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Tejas Jayashankar , Jonathan Le Roux , Pierre Moulin

Speaker verification (SV) provides billions of voice-enabled devices with access control, and ensures the security of voice-driven technologies. As a type of biometrics, it is necessary that SV is unbiased, with consistent and reliable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Wiebke Toussaint Hutiri , Lauriane Gorce , Aaron Yi Ding

Due to the widespread deployment of fingerprint/face/speaker recognition systems, attacking deep learning based biometric systems has drawn more and more attention. Previous research mainly studied the attack to the vision-based system,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Jiguo Li , Xinfeng Zhang , Jizheng Xu , Li Zhang , Yue Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Environmental sound recordings often contain intelligible speech, raising privacy concerns that limit analysis, sharing and reuse of data. In this paper, we introduce a method that renders speech unintelligible while preserving both the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Modan Tailleur , Mathieu Lagrange , Pierre Aumond , Vincent Tourre

Recently, opportunities to transmit speech data to deep learning models executed in the cloud have increased. This has led to growing concerns about speech privacy, including both speaker-specific information and the linguistic content of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Kohei Tanaka , Hitoshi Kiya , Sayaka Shiota

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

Neural networks are commonly known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks mounted through subtle perturbation on the input data. Recent development in voice-privacy protection has shown the positive use cases of the same technique to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Chenyang Guo , Liping Chen , Zhuhai Li , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Wu Guo

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…

On-device Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models trained on speech data of a large population might underperform for individuals unseen during training. This is due to a domain shift between user data and the original training data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Jisi Zhang , Vandana Rajan , Haaris Mehmood , David Tuckey , Pablo Peso Parada , Md Asif Jalal , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Gil Ho Lee , Jungin Lee , Seokyeong Jung

As Speech Language Models (SLMs) transition from personal devices to shared, multi-user environments such as smart homes, a new challenge emerges: the model is expected to distinguish between users to manage information flow appropriately.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yuxiang Wang , Hongyu Liu , Dekun Chen , Xueyao Zhang , Zhizheng Wu

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

In this paper, we initiate the concern of enhancing the spoofing robustness of the automatic speaker verification (ASV) system, without the primary presence of a separate countermeasure module. We start from the standard ASV framework of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Xuechen Liu , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have been evolving quickly and reaching human parity in certain cases. The systems usually perform pretty well on reading style and clean speech, however, most of the available systems suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Quang Minh Nguyen , Thai Binh Nguyen , Ngoc Phuong Pham , The Loc Nguyen

Researchers have demonstrated that Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems perform differently across demographic groups. In this work, we examined how subtitle errors affect evaluations of speakers and their content using a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kowe Kadoma , Priyal Shrivastava , Mor Naaman

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

The effects of speaking-style variability on automatic speaker verification were investigated using the UCLA Speaker Variability database which comprises multiple speaking styles per speaker. An x-vector/PLDA (probabilistic linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Amber Afshan , Jinxi Guo , Soo Jin Park , Vijay Ravi , Alan McCree , Abeer Alwan

Large scale adoption of large language models has introduced a new era of convenient knowledge transfer for a slew of natural language processing tasks. However, these models also run the risk of undermining user trust by exposing unwanted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Richard Plant , Valerio Giuffrida , Dimitra Gkatzia