Adversarial Black-Box Attacks on Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

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  • Shreya Khare
  • Rahul Aralikatte
  • Senthil Mani
Fooling deep neural networks with adversarial input have exposed a significant vulnerability in the current state-of-the-art systems in multiple domains. Both black-box and white-box approaches have been used to either replicate the model itself or to craft examples which cause the model to fail. In this work, we propose a framework which uses multi-objective evolutionary optimization to perform both targeted and un-targeted black-box attacks on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. We apply this framework on two ASR systems: Deepspeech and Kaldi-ASR, which increases the Word Error Rates (WER) of these systems by upto 980%, indicating the potency of our approach. During both un-targeted and targeted attacks, the adversarial samples maintain a high acoustic similarity of 0.98 and 0.97 with the original audio.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProc. Interspeech 2019
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Publication date15 Sep 2019
Pages3208-3212
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Sep 2019
EventInterspeech 2019 - 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - Graz, Austria
Duration: 15 Sep 201919 Sep 2019

Conference

ConferenceInterspeech 2019 - 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
LandAustria
ByGraz
Periode15/09/201919/09/2019

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