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VoiceBlock: PrivacythroughReal-TimeAdversarial AttackswithAudio-to-AudioModels

Neural Information Processing Systems

As governments and corporations adopt deep learning systems to collect and analyze user-generated audio data, concerns about security and privacy naturally emerge in areas such as automatic speaker recognition. While audio adversarial examples offer one route to mislead or evade these invasive systems, they are typically crafted through time-intensive offline optimization, limiting their usefulness in streaming contexts. Inspired by architectures for audio-toaudio tasks such as denoising and speech enhancement, we propose a neural network model capable ofadversarially modifying auser'saudio stream inrealtime. Our model learns to apply a time-varying finite impulse response (FIR) filter to outgoing audio, allowing for effective and inconspicuous perturbations on a small fixed delay suitable for streaming tasks. We demonstrate our model is highly effective at de-identifying user speech from speaker recognition and able to transfer to an unseen recognition system. We conduct a perceptual study and find that our method produces perturbations significantly less perceptible than baseline anonymization methods, when controlling for effectiveness. Finally, we provide an implementation of our model capable of running in real-time on asingle CPU thread.




AT ask Level Case Study

Neural Information Processing Systems

This section illustrates how a model's performance may vary across different tasks associated with We analyzed the performance of Llama-3-Instruct-70B on the new term "wokely," The book's cover was described as wokely by several reviewers. A. it struggled to attract attention on the bookstore displays despite a B. many readers were enticed to buy it, strengthening its presence on C. readers were intrigued and the book's sales experienced an unexpected surge worldwide. D. the publisher decided to release a limited edition with a special In the previous sentence, does _ refer to A. Is this example in line with commonsense and grammatically correct? As observed, the model only answered correctly in the COMA task but failed in the other two tasks. In the COMA task, the model successfully inferred that "wokely" carries a negative connotation, Although the phrase "hard to find a satisfying These results provide a comprehensive evaluation of the model's understanding of the term "wokely."




Twelve men charged with manslaughter of football fan

BBC News

Twelve men have been charged with the manslaughter of football fan Simon Dobbin. Dobbin was assaulted outside the Railway Tavern in Southend-on-Sea in Essex in March 2015 following a match between Cambridge United and Southend United. The dad from Mildenhall, Suffolk, died in October 2020 after suffering a brain injury as a result of the attack. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had now decided to prosecute 12 men in connection with his death and all the defendants will appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on 31 March. Rebecca Mundy, deputy chief crown prosecutor, said the CPS had worked closely with Essex Police to examine and review material obtained during previous investigations.