Audio watermarking aims to embed identifiable information into audio while remaining imperceptible. Existing methods adopt high-fidelity, low-energy designs to preserve perceptual quality, but the resulting watermarks lack robustness under suppression by speech reconstruction models.
arXiv:2603. 05310v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While existing audio watermarking techniques have achieved strong robustness against traditional digital signal processing (DSP) attacks, they remain vulnerable to neural compression.
By Yen-Shan Chen, Shih-Yu Lai, Ying-Jung Tsou, Yi-Cheng Lin, Bing-Yu Chen, Yun-Nung Chen, Hung-yi Lee, Shang-Tse Chen
arXiv:2606. 23335v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Provenance watermarking is increasingly treated as a safeguard for synthetic speech, whether built directly into speech-generation models such as Chatterbox, provided through dedicated techniques such as AudioSeal, or deployed by commercial platforms such as ElevenLabs.
By Nicolas M. M\"uller, Pascal Debus
arXiv:2607. 11117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI music generation has rapidly advanced alongside commercial platforms, raising the need for reliable watermarking for provenance and attribution.
By Seohwan Yun, Jeeyoung Yun, Yongjin Kim, Juyeon Lee, Sungwoong Kim
AI music generation has rapidly advanced alongside commercial platforms, raising the need for reliable watermarking for provenance and attribution. However, existing audio watermarking research has largely focused on speech, and applying speech-oriented methods to music is challenging due to music's complex structure and rich acoustic texture.
Provenance watermarking is increasingly treated as a safeguard for synthetic speech, whether built directly into speech-generation models such as Chatterbox, provided through dedicated techniques such as AudioSeal, or deployed by commercial platforms such as ElevenLabs. We identify a previously uncharacterized liability: when synthetic speech is watermarked and human speech is not, detectors trained alongside latch onto the watermark as a spurious "watermark => fake" shortcut.
Neural audio codecs are a key component of speech processing pipelines, compressing audio into discrete tokens for downstream modeling. However, existing codecs struggle to balance reconstruction quality with token efficiency, often encoding perceptually irrelevant information such as background noise and recording artifacts at the expense of linguistically and acoustically meaningful content.
arXiv:2606. 05678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have become widely used for multilingual speech-to-text transcription.
By Yifan Liao, Zongmin Zhang, Zhen Sun, Yuhui Sun, Xinhu Zheng, Xinlei He
arXiv:2608. 09288v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-visual speech enhancement under real-world conditions remains challenging due to unreliable visual inputs and the lack of large-scale training data with realistic acoustic conditions.
By Wei Zhou, Wanyi Ning, Yinshang Guo, Qianxiao Fang, Haitao Qian, Yingpeng Li
arXiv:2608. 09593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in speech synthesis and audio generation have made high-fidelity acoustic forgery low-cost and difficult to attribute, enabling a realistic attack scenario in which speech and background audio are independently manipulated over otherwise authentic video.
By Yanqiu Li, Yang Xiao, Jisheng Bai, Bin Chen, Hong Jia, Ting Dang
arXiv:2606. 30356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Online Latent prediction with Invariant Views and rEconstruction (OLIVE), a self-supervised speech representation learning framework that jointly optimizes analysis and synthesis objectives.
By Karl El Hajal, Mathew Magimai. -Doss
arXiv:2607. 10191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative streaming models for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) commonly exhibit a quality--intelligibility trade-off, wherein naive optimization for perceptual audio quality tends to degrade speech intelligibility, and conversely.
By Shuhai Peng, Jinjiang Liu, Hui Lu, Liyang Chen, Guiping Zhong, Jiakui Li, Shiyin Kang, Zhiyong Wu