Decoding Deception: Understanding Automatic Speech Recognition Vulnerabilities in Evasion and Poisoning Attacks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22060v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:42:59 GMT
• Title: Decoding Deception: Understanding Automatic Speech Recognition Vulnerabilities in Evasion and Poisoning Attacks
• Authors: Aravindhan G, Yuvaraj Govindarajulu, Parin Shah,
• Abstract summary: This paper explores cost efficient white-box attack and non transferability black-box adversarial attacks on Automatic Speech Recognition systems.<n>We show how perturbation attack can degrade the performances of state-of-the-art models leading to misinterpretation of audio signals.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of Automatic Speech Recognition systems to adversarial examples, which can deceive these systems into misinterpreting input speech commands. While previous research has primarily focused on white-box attacks with constrained optimizations, and transferability based black-box attacks against commercial Automatic Speech Recognition devices, this paper explores cost efficient white-box attack and non transferability black-box adversarial attacks on Automatic Speech Recognition systems, drawing insights from approaches such as Fast Gradient Sign Method and Zeroth-Order Optimization. Further, the novelty of the paper includes how poisoning attack can degrade the performances of state-of-the-art models leading to misinterpretation of audio signals. Through experimentation and analysis, we illustrate how hybrid models can generate subtle yet impactful adversarial examples with very little perturbation having Signal Noise Ratio of 35dB that can be generated within a minute. These vulnerabilities of state-of-the-art open source model have practical security implications, and emphasize the need for adversarial security.

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