Introducing i-vectors for joint anti-spoofing and speaker verification

Any biometric recognizer is vulnerable to direct spoofing attacks and automatic speaker verification (ASV) is no exception; replay, synthesis and conversion attacks all provoke false acceptances unless countermeasures are used. We focus on voice conversion (VC) attacks. Most existing countermeasures use full knowledge of a particular VC system to detect spoofing. We study a potentially more universal approach involving generative modeling perspective. Specifically, we adopt standard ivector representation and probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) back-end for joint operation of spoofing attack detector and ASV system. As a proof of concept, we study a vocoder-mismatched ASV and VC attack detection approach on the NIST 2006 speaker recognition evaluation corpus. We report stand-alone accuracy of both the ASV and countermeasure systems as well as their combination using score fusion and joint approach. The method holds promise.