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In this paper we investigate speech denoising as a defense against adversarial attacks on automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Adversarial attacks attempt to force misclassification by adding small perturbations to the original…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Anirudh Sreeram , Nicholas Mehlman , Raghuveer Peri , Dillon Knox , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Adversarial attacks have become a major threat for machine learning applications. There is a growing interest in studying these attacks in the audio domain, e.g, speech and speaker recognition; and find defenses against them. In this work,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Jesús Villalba , Sonal Joshi , Piotr Żelasko , Najim Dehak

Speaker recognition systems (SRSs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising significant security concerns. In this work, we systematically investigate transformation and adversarial training based defenses…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Guangke Chen , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Feng Wang , Jiashui Wang

Deep neural network based speaker recognition systems can easily be deceived by an adversary using minuscule imperceptible perturbations to the input speech samples. These adversarial attacks pose serious security threats to the speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Monisankha Pal , Arindam Jati , Raghuveer Peri , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Wael AbdAlmageed , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recent advancements in adversarial attacks have demonstrated their effectiveness in misleading speaker recognition models, making wrong predictions about speaker identities. On the other hand, defense techniques against speaker-adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Liping Chen , Chenyang Guo , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Wu Guo

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key technology in many services and applications. This typically requires user devices to send their speech data to the cloud for ASR decoding. As the speech signal carries a lot of information about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Emmanuel Vincent

Recently, studies show that deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs), which add a small amount of noise to the original audio examples. These AE attacks pose new challenges…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Feng Guo , Zheng Sun , Yuxuan Chen , Lei Ju

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

Computational paralinguistic analysis is increasingly being used in a wide range of cyber applications, including security-sensitive applications such as speaker verification, deceptive speech detection, and medical diagnostics. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Yuan Gong , Christian Poellabauer

Machine learning models are vulnerable to tiny adversarial input perturbations optimized to cause a very large output error. To measure this vulnerability, we need reliable methods that can find such adversarial perturbations. For image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Levente Halmosi , Bálint Mohos , Márk Jelasity

With the wide use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in applications such as human machine interaction, simultaneous interpretation, audio transcription, etc., its security protection becomes increasingly important. Although recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yuxuan Chen , Jiangshan Zhang , Xuejing Yuan , Shengzhi Zhang , Kai Chen , Xiaofeng Wang , Shanqing Guo

Deep reinforcement learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can decrease a victim's cumulative expected reward by manipulating the victim's observations. Despite the efficiency of previous optimization-based methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 You Qiaoben , Chengyang Ying , Xinning Zhou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Spoken question answering (SQA) is challenging due to complex reasoning on top of the spoken documents. The recent studies have also shown the catastrophic impact of automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors on SQA. Therefore, this work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Chia-Hsuan Lee , Yun-Nung Chen , Hung-Yi Lee

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are prevalent, particularly in applications for voice navigation and voice control of domestic appliances. The computational core of ASRs are deep neural networks (DNNs) that have been shown to be…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xiaoliang Wu , Ajitha Rajan

Recently adversarial attacks on automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems attracted widespread attention as they pose severe threats to ASV systems. However, methods to defend against such attacks are limited. Existing approaches mainly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Xu Li , Na Li , Jinghua Zhong , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

The development of deep learning technology has greatly promoted the performance improvement of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology, which has demonstrated an ability comparable to human hearing in many tasks. Voice interfaces are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Jinghui Xu , Jifeng Zhu , Yong Yang

In this work, we aim to enhance the system robustness of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) against adversarially-noisy speech examples. We focus on a rigorous and empirical "closed-model adversarial robustness" setting (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yile Gu , Joseph Szurley , Roger Ren , Linda Liu , Andreas Stolcke , Ivan Bulyko

An adversarial attack is an exploitative process in which minute alterations are made to natural inputs, causing the inputs to be misclassified by neural models. In the field of speech recognition, this has become an issue of increasing…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Krishan Rajaratnam , Kunal Shah , Jugal Kalita

In light of the widespread application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, their security concerns have received much more attention than ever before, primarily due to the susceptibility of Deep Neural Networks. Previous studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Qi Shen , Kai Ye , Derui Wang , Jie Hao , Ziyao Liu