Vulnerability of speaker verification systems against voice conversion spoofing attacks: The case of telephone speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4401-4404

  Kinnunen, Tomi ^a   Wu, Zhi Zheng ^b   Lee, Kong Aik ^c   Sedlak, Filip ^a   Chng, Eng Siong ^b   Li, Haizhou ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

security; speaker verification; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT METHODS; FALSE ACCEPTANCE RATE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; JOINT FACTOR ANALYSIS; SECURITY; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM; SPOOFING ATTACKS; TELEPHONE SPEECH; TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER VERIFICATION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867600098     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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