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 …

Since the purchase of Siri by Apple, and its release with the iPhone 4S in 2011, virtual
assistants (VAs) have grown in number and popularity. The sophisticated natural language …

Wearable technologies provide a non-invasive way to monitor user's activity, identity, and
health in real-time, which have attracted tremendous interests from both academia and …

Voice assistant applications have become omniscient nowadays. Two models that provide
the two most important functions for real-life applications (ie, Google Home, Amazon Alexa …

In the last few years, Internet of Things (IoT) devices have evolved at an accelerated rate.
Smart technology is leaning towards new human-device interaction interfaces that lack …

With the success of voice recognition techniques, users can easily control any device in
smart home environments by simply saying a voice command. Based on this idea, a new …

Although speech recognition technology has improved significantly over the past few years,
the absence of reliable voice authentication methods has negatively affected the Internet of …

Smart speakers bring convenience to people's daily lives. However, various attacks can be
launched against smart speakers to execute malicious commands, which may cause serious …

At-home screening systems for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can bring convenience to
remote chronic disease management. However, the unsupervised home environment is …

Most existing voice-based user authentication systems mainly rely on microphones to
capture the unique vocal characteristics of an individual, which are vulnerable to various …