Zero resource anti-spoofing detection for unit selection based synthetic speech using image spectrogram artifacts
Su Jun Leow, Eng Siong Chng, Chin-hui Lee · 2016
Synthesized speech poses a serious threat to speaker verification systems, which is aggravated by speech synthesis systems becoming more freely available and easily adaptable to a target speaker. This motivated research into synthetic speech detection to circumvent the threat. Although current algorithms are effective in the detection of HMM-based speech synthesizers, unit selection based speech synthesizers remain a serious threat due to its ability to generate spoofing speech which easily overcame existing detectors. Current error rates for their detection is a lot higher than that obtained for other spoofing methods. This paper proposes a detection algorithm to counter unit selection based synthesis speech. It is free of training and exploits presence of artifacts in image spectrogram to perform detection. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt targeted for unit selection based synthesis speech. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.