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 …

Personal voice assistant security and privacy—a survey

P Cheng, U Roedig - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personal voice assistants (PVAs) are increasingly used as interfaces to digital environments.
Voice commands are used to interact with phones, smart homes, or cars. In the United …

Your microphone array retains your identity: A robust voice liveness detection system for smart speakers

Y Meng, J Li, M Pillari, A Deopujari, L Brennan… - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
Though playing an essential role in smart home systems, smart speakers are vulnerable to
voice spoofing attacks. Passive liveness detection, which utilizes only the collected audio …

A survey on amazon alexa attack surfaces

Y Lit, S Kim, E Sy - 2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since being launched in 2014, Alexa, Amazon's versatile cloud-based voice service, is now
active in over 100 million households worldwide [1]. Alexa's user-friendly, personalized …

UltraSE: single-channel speech enhancement using ultrasound

K Sun, X Zhang - Proceedings of the 27th annual international …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Robust speech enhancement is considered as the holy grail of audio processing and a key
requirement for human-human and human-machine interaction. Solving this task with single …

" Alexa, stop spying on me!" speech privacy protection against voice assistants

K Sun, C Chen, X Zhang - Proceedings of the 18th conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants (VAs) are becoming highly popular recently as a general means of
interacting with the Internet of Things. However, the use of always-on microphones on VAs …