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Adversarial Examples Against Automatic Speech Recognition (arxiv.org)
1 point by d--b on May 10, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: They tricked a speech-recognition system into writing a chosen wrong phrase by adding tiny noise to the quietest bits of some audio samples, without knowing how it works. It succeeded 87% of the time, and listeners heard the clip unchanged 89% of the time.

Abstract · Did you hear that? Adversarial Examples Against Automatic Speech Recognition

Speech is a common and effective way of communication between humans, and modern consumer devices such as smartphones and home hubs are equipped with deep learning based accurate automatic speech recognition to enable natural interaction between humans and machines. Recently, researchers have demonstrated powerful attacks against machine learning models that can fool them to produceincorrect results. However, nearly all previous research in adversarial attacks has focused on image recognition and object detection models. In this short paper, we present a first of its kind demonstration of adversarial attacks against speech classification model. Our algorithm performs targeted attacks with 87% success by adding small background noise without having to know the underlying model parameter and architecture. Our attack only changes the least significant bits of a subset of audio clip samples, and the noise does not change 89% the human listener's perception of the audio clip as evaluated in our human study.

Moustafa Alzantot, Bharathan Balaji, Mani Srivastava
arXiv:1801.00554 · cs.CL, cs.CR · submitted Jan 2, 2018
abstract · pdf · html · Published in NIPS 2017 Machine Deception workshop

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