VoiceListener: A Training-free and Universal Eavesdropping Attack on Built-in Speakers of Mobile Devices

Recently, voice leakage gradually raises more significant concerns of users, due to its underlying sensitive and private information when providing intelligent services. Existing studies demonstrate the feasibility of applying learning-based solutions on built-in sensor measurements to recover voices. However, due to the privacy concerns, large-scale voices-sensor measurements samples for model training are not publicly available, leading to significant efforts in data collection for such an attack. In this paper, we propose a training-free and universal eavesdropping attack on built-in speakers, VoiceListener, which releases the data collection efforts and is able to adapt to various voices, platforms, and domains. In particular, VoiceListener develops an aliasing-corrected super resolution mechanism, including an aliasing-based pitch estimation and an aliasing-corrected voice recovering, to convert the undersampled narrow-band sensor measurements to wide-band voices. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed VoiceListener could accurately recover the voices from undersampled sensor measurements and is robust to different voices, platforms and domains, realizing the universal eavesdropping attack.

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In this study, a training-free and universal eavesdropping attack method called VoiceListener is proposed, which can recover voices from undersampled sensor measurements and is adaptable to different voices, platforms, and domains.