A taxonomy of attacks via the speech interface

This paper investigates the security of human-computer interaction via a speech interface. The use of speech interfaces for human-computer interaction is becoming more widespread, particularly in the form of voice-controlled digital assistants. We argue that this development represents new security...

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Main Authors: Bispham, MK, Agrafiotis, I, Goldsmith, M
Format: Conference item
Published: ThinkMind Digital Library 2018
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Summary:This paper investigates the security of human-computer interaction via a speech interface. The use of speech interfaces for human-computer interaction is becoming more widespread, particularly in the form of voice-controlled digital assistants. We argue that this development represents new security vulnerabilities which have yet to be comprehensively investigated and addressed. This paper presents a comprehensive review of prior work in this area to date. Based on this review, we propose a high level taxonomy of attacks via the speech interface. Our taxonomy systematises the prior work on the security of voice-controlled digital assistants, and identifies new categories of potential attacks which have yet to be investigated and thus represent a focus for future research.