Speech and speaker recognition systems are employed in a variety of applications, from
personal assistants to telephony surveillance and biometric authentication. The wide …

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 …

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have promised to drastically improve the convenience of driving
by releasing the burden of drivers and reducing traffic accidents with more precise control …

Mobile devices and technologies have become increasingly popular, offering comparable
storage and computational capabilities to desktop computers allowing users to store and …

Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on many aspects
of daily life. A range of different measures have been implemented worldwide to reduce the …

With the continuing growth of voice-controlled devices, voice metrics have been widely used
for user identification. However, voice biometrics is vulnerable to replay attacks and ambient …

Generative machine learning models have made convincing voice synthesis a reality. While
such tools can be extremely useful in applications where people consent to their voices …

Advances in deep learning have introduced a new wave of voice synthesis tools, capable of
producing audio that sounds as if spoken by a target speaker. If successful, such tools in the …

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 …

Voice authentication is becoming increasingly popular, which offers potential benefits over
knowledge and possession based authentication methods. Meanwhile, the unique features …