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Voice assistants, such as smart speakers, have exploded in popularity. It is currently estimated that the smart speaker adoption rate has exceeded 35% in the US adult population. Manufacturers have integrated speaker identification…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Quchen Fu , Zhongwei Teng , Jules White , Maria Powell , Douglas C. Schmidt

Many datasets have been designed to further the development of fake audio detection. However, fake utterances in previous datasets are mostly generated by altering timbre, prosody, linguistic content or channel noise of original audio.…

Speech deepfake detection (SDD) focuses on identifying whether a given speech signal is genuine or has been synthetically generated. Existing audio large language model (LLM)-based methods excel in content understanding; however, their…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiaoxuan Guo , Yuankun Xie , Haonan Cheng , Jiayi Zhou , Jian Liu , Hengyan Huang , Long Ye , Qin Zhang

Modern speech enhancement (SE) networks typically implement noise suppression through time-frequency masking, latent representation masking, or discriminative signal prediction. In contrast, some recent works explore SE via generative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Mikolaj Kegler , Li-Chia Yang

Spoofing-robust automatic speaker verification (SASV) seeks to build automatic speaker verification systems that are robust against both zero-effort impostor attacks and sophisticated spoofing techniques such as voice conversion (VC) and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Amro Asali , Yehuda Ben-Shimol , Itshak Lapidot

Prosody contains rich information beyond the literal meaning of words, which is crucial for the intelligibility of speech. Current models still fall short in phrasing and intonation; they not only miss or misplace breaks when synthesizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xiangheng He , Junjie Chen , Zixing Zhang , Björn W. Schuller

This paper describes our proposed integration system for the spoofing-aware speaker verification challenge. It consists of a robust spoofing-aware verification system that use the speaker verification and antispoofing embeddings extracted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Juan M. Martín-Doñas , Iván G. Torre , Aitor Álvarez , Joaquin Arellano

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based system for the task of deepfake audio detection. In particular, the draw input audio is first transformed into various spectrograms using three transformation methods of Short-time Fourier…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Lam Pham , Phat Lam , Truong Nguyen , Huyen Nguyen , Alexander Schindler

The technique of transforming voices in order to hide the real identity of a speaker is called voice disguise, among which automatic voice disguise (AVD) by modifying the spectral and temporal characteristics of voices with miscellaneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Linlin Zheng , Jiakang Li , Meng Sun , Xiongwei Zhang , Thomas Fang Zheng

The first spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge aims to integrate research efforts in speaker verification and anti-spoofing. We extend the speaker verification scenario by introducing spoofed trials to the usual set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Jee-weon Jung , Hemlata Tak , Hye-jin Shim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Soo-Whan Chung , Ha-Jin Yu , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen

We present ProsAudit, a benchmark in English to assess structural prosodic knowledge in self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models. It consists of two subtasks, their corresponding metrics, and an evaluation dataset. In the protosyntax…

Recent advancements in end-to-end speech synthesis have made it possible to generate highly natural speech. However, training these models typically requires a large amount of high-fidelity speech data, and for unseen texts, the prosody of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Mengxi Nie , Ming Yan , Mengnan He , Ruixiong Zhang , Caixia Gong

Detecting spoofing attempts of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems is challenging, especially when using only one modeling approach. For robustness, we use both deep neural networks and traditional machine learning models and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Bhusan Chettri , Daniel Stoller , Veronica Morfi , Marco A. Martínez Ramírez , Emmanouil Benetos , Bob L. Sturm

In expressive speech synthesis it is widely adopted to use latent prosody representations to deal with variability of the data during training. Same text may correspond to various acoustic realizations, which is known as a one-to-many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Mikolaj Babianski , Kamil Pokora , Raahil Shah , Rafal Sienkiewicz , Daniel Korzekwa , Viacheslav Klimkov

Speaker verification, as a biometric authentication mechanism, has been widely used due to the pervasiveness of voice control on smart devices. However, the task of "in-the-wild" speaker verification is still challenging, considering the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Jianwei Tai , Xiaoqi Jia , Qingjia Huang , Weijuan Zhang , Haichao Du , Shengzhi Zhang

As speech generation technology advances, the risk of misuse through deepfake audio has become a pressing concern, which underscores the critical need for robust detection systems. However, many existing speech deepfake datasets are limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wen Huang , Yanmei Gu , Zhiming Wang , Huijia Zhu , Yanmin Qian

Face spoofing causes severe security threats in face recognition systems. Previous anti-spoofing works focused on supervised techniques, typically with either binary or auxiliary supervision. Most of them suffer from limited robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Chengwei Chen , Wang Yuan , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Spoofing-robust automatic speaker verification (SASV) systems are a crucial technology for the protection against spoofed speech. In this study, we focus on logical access attacks and introduce a novel approach to SASV tasks. A novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Avishai Weizman , Yehuda Ben-Shimol , Itshak Lapidot

Based on the assumption that there is a correlation between anti-spoofing and speaker verification, a Total-Divide-Total integrated Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification (SASV) system based on pre-trained automatic speaker verification (ASV)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Yuxiang Zhang , Zhuo Li , Wenchao Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

With a recent influx of voice generation methods, the threat introduced by audio DeepFake (DF) is ever-increasing. Several different detection methods have been presented as a countermeasure. Many methods are based on so-called front-ends,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Piotr Kawa , Marcin Plata , Michał Czuba , Piotr Szymański , Piotr Syga