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A Study of the Removability of Speaker-Adversarial Perturbations

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Liping Chen
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Chenyang Guo
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Kong Aik Lee
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Zhen-Hua Ling
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Wu Guo
DOI:10.1109/tdsc.2026.3693091delete
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Recent advancements in adversarial attacks have demonstrated their effectiveness in misleading speaker recognition models, making wrong predictions about speaker identities. On the other hand, defense techniques against speaker-adversarial attacks focus on reducing the effects of speaker-adversarial perturbations on speaker attribute extraction. These techniques do not seek to fully remove the perturbations and restore the original speech. To this end, this paper studies the removability of speaker-adversarial perturbations. Specifically, the investigation is conducted assuming various degrees of awareness of the perturbation generator across three scenarios: ignorant, semi-informed, and well-informed. Besides, we consider both the optimization-based and feedforward perturbation generation methods. Experiments conducted on the LibriSpeech dataset demonstrated that: 1) in the ignorant scenario, speaker-adversarial perturbations cannot be eliminated, although their impact on speaker attribute extraction is reduced, 2) in the semi-informed scenario, the speaker-adversarial perturbations cannot be fully removed, while those generated by the feedforward model can be considerably reduced, and 3) in the well-informed scenario, speaker-adversarial perturbations are nearly eliminated, allowing for the restoration of the original speech.
Keywords:
Speaker-adversarial speech
perturbation removal
original speech restoration

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IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing cover
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
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hong kong polytechnic university
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University of Science and Technology of China
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