An overview of digital speech watermarking

Digital speech watermarking is a robust way to hide and thus secure data like audio and video from any intentional or unintentional manipulation through transmission. In terms of some signal characteristics including bandwidth, voice/non-voice and production model, digital speech signal is different from audio, music and other signals. Although, various review articles on image, audio and video watermarking are available, there are still few review papers on digital speech watermarking. Therefore this article presents an overview of digital speech watermarking including issues of robustness, capacity and imperceptibility. Other issues discussed are types of digital speech watermarking, application, models and masking methods. This article further highlights the related challenges in the real world, research opportunities and future works in this area, yet to be explored fully

Iterative Decoding and Estimation for Digital Audio Watermarking

In this paper, a novel blind audio watermarking method is investigated. In this approach, the watermarking message is embedded into the low frequency components of the host signal in a novel transformation named Point to Point Graph (PPG). This watermarking scheme does not make significant high frequency components, and leads to a suitable blind dewatermarking procedure based on nonuniform sampling and iterative reconstruction. The convergence of the iterative method and the distortion caused by this watermarking approach are investigated analytically. Finally, the robustness of the method is examined against different common attacks such as AWGN, echo, low pass, MP3, etc using STIMARK software