Use of the harmonic phase in synthetic speech detection

Special Session paper: recent PhD thesis descriptionThis PhD dissertation was written by Jon Sanchez and supervised by Inma Hernáez and Ibon Saratxaga. It was defended at the University of the Basque Country the 5th of February 2016. The committee members were Dr. Alfonso Ortega Giménez (UniZar), Dr. Daniel Erro Eslava (UPV/EHU) and Dr. Enric Monte Moreno (UPC). The dissertation was awarded a "sobresaliente cum laude” qualification.This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness with FEDER support (RESTORE project,TEC2015-67163-C2-1-R) and the Basque Government (ELKAROLA project, KK-2015/00098)

Use of the harmonic phase in synthetic speech detection

Special Session paper: recent PhD thesis descriptionThis PhD dissertation was written by Jon Sanchez and supervised by Inma Hernáez and Ibon Saratxaga. It was defended at the University of the Basque Country the 5th of February 2016. The committee members were Dr. Alfonso Ortega Giménez (UniZar), Dr. Daniel Erro Eslava (UPV/EHU) and Dr. Enric Monte Moreno (UPC). The dissertation was awarded a "sobresaliente cum laude” qualification.This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness with FEDER support (RESTORE project,TEC2015-67163-C2-1-R) and the Basque Government (ELKAROLA project, KK-2015/00098)

Synthetic speech detection using phase information

Taking advantage of the fact that most of the speech processing techniques neglect the phase information, we seek to detect phase perturbations in order to prevent synthetic impostors attacking Speaker Verification systems. Two Synthetic Speech Detection (SSD) systems that use spectral phase related information are reviewed and evaluated in this work: one based on the Modified Group Delay (MGD), and the other based on the Relative Phase Shift, (RPS). A classical module-based MFCC system is also used as baseline. Different training strategies are proposed and evaluated using both real spoofing samples and copy-synthesized signals from the natural ones, aiming to alleviate the issue of getting real data to train the systems. The recently published ASVSpoof2015 database is used for training and evaluation. Performance with completely unrelated data is also checked using synthetic speech from the Blizzard Challenge as evaluation material. The results prove that phase information can be successfully used for the SSD task even with unknown attacks.This work has been partially supported by the Basque Government (ElkarOla Project, KK-2015/00,098) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Restore project, TEC2015-67,163-C2-1-R)

Utilización de la fase armónica en la detección de voz sintética.

156 p.Los sistemas de verificación de locutor (SV) tienen que enfrentarse a la posibilidad de ser atacados mediante técnicas de spoofing. Hoy en día, las tecnologías de conversión de voces y de síntesis de voz adaptada a locutor han avanzado lo suficiente para poder crear voces que sean capaces de engañar a un sistema SV. En esta tesis se propone un módulo de detección de habla sintética (SSD) que puede utilizarse como complemento a un sistema SV, pero que es capaz de funcionar de manera independiente. Lo conforma un clasificador basado en GMM, dotado de modelos de habla humana y sintética. Cada entrada se compara con ambos, y, si la diferencia de verosimilitudes supera un determinado umbral, se acepta como humana, rechazándose en caso contrario. El sistema desarrollado es independiente de locutor. Para la generación de modelos se utilizarán parámetros RPS. Se propone una técnica para reducir la complejidad del proceso de entrenamiento, evitando generar TTSs adaptados o un conversor de voz para cada locutor. Para ello, como la mayoría de los sistemas de adaptación o síntesis modernos hacen uso de vocoders, se propone transcodificar las señales humanas mediante vocoders para obtener de esta forma sus versiones sintéticas, con las que se generarán los modelos sintéticos del clasificador. Se demostrará que se pueden detectar señales sintéticas detectando que se crearon mediante un vocoder. El rendimiento del sistema prueba en diferentes condiciones: con las propias señales transcodificadas o con ataques TTS. Por último, se plantean estrategias para el entrenamiento de modelos para sistemas SSD