A survey on voice assistant security: Attacks and countermeasures

C Yan, X Ji, K Wang, Q Jiang, Z **, W Xu - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants (VA) have become prevalent on a wide range of personal devices such as
smartphones and smart speakers. As companies build voice assistants with extra …

Sok: A modularized approach to study the security of automatic speech recognition systems

Y Chen, J Zhang, X Yuan, S Zhang, K Chen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
With the wide use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in applications such as human
machine interaction, simultaneous interpretation, audio transcription, and so on, its security …

Personal Voice Assistant wake word jamming

P Sagi, A Sankar, U Roedig - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personal Voice Assistants (PVAs) such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google Home
are now ubiquitous. These devices continuously listen for a wake word that users speak to …

A Portable and Stealthy Inaudible Voice Attack Based on Acoustic Metamaterials

Z Ning, J He, Z Tang, W Hu, X Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.15031, 2025 - arxiv.org
We present METAATTACK, the first approach to leverage acoustic metamaterials for
inaudible attacks for voice control systems. Compared to the state-of-the-art inaudible …

Guarding the Gates: A Comprehensive Survey of Backdoor Attacks on Neural Networks

A Shah, A Ahmad, B Ali, S Anwer… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
The increasing use of machine learning models in various fields has unfortunately led to a
rise in backdoor attacks. These attacks secretly add harmful features to models, allowing …

A Secure Audio Interface to Prevent Spying of Audio Data on Voice Controlled Devices

P Rajanbabu, PK Dubey - 2021 10th IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of voice based digital assistants has made life simpler for the current generation.
Devices such as Amazon Echo and google home assists humans to perform user instructed …