BypTalker: An Adaptive Adversarial Example Attack to Bypass Prefilter-enabled Speaker Recognition

With the broad integration of deep learning in Speaker Recognition (SR) systems, adversarial example attacks have been a significant threat raising user security concerns. Nevertheless, recent studies demonstrate that using input transformations (e.g., re-quantization, resampling, bandpass filtering) as a low-cost prefilter can efficiently mitigate such adversarial example attacks. These prefilters constrain the injection space of adversarial perturbations in both time and frequency domains, leading to either degraded attack performance or amplified perturbation noise. This paper proposes a new adversarial example attack, BypTalker, which could bypass these prefilter-enabled SR systems while remaining imperceptible to human listeners. BypTalker employs ensemble learning with diverse substitute pre-filters in the training phase to enhance the adversarial example’s adaptiveness to different prefilters. Furthermore, it incorporates an Acoustic Masker to cloak adversarial perturbations based on psychoacoustics effectively. This masker is well selected from a proposed metric M-Sup for minimizing the perturbation’s auditory to human perception. Experimental results show that BypTalker can achieve an Attack Success Rate of 99.1% and a Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality of 4.32, respectively.