mmWave-Whisper: Phone Call Eavesdropping and Transcription Using Millimeter-Wave Radar

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Autori principali: Basak, Suryoday, Padarthi, Abhijeeth, Gowda, Mahanth
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Basak, Suryoday
Padarthi, Abhijeeth
Gowda, Mahanth
author_facet Basak, Suryoday
Padarthi, Abhijeeth
Gowda, Mahanth
contents This paper introduces mmWave-Whisper, a system that demonstrates the feasibility of full-corpus automated speech recognition (ASR) on phone calls eavesdropped remotely using off-the-shelf frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) millimeter-wave radars. Operating in the 77-81 GHz range, mmWave-Whisper captures earpiece vibrations from smartphones, converts them into audio, and processes the audio to produce speech transcriptions automatically. Unlike previous work that focused on loudspeakers or limited vocabulary, this is the first work to perform such a speech recognition by handling large vocabulary and full sentences on earpiece vibrations from smartphones. This approach expands the potential of radar-audio eavesdropping. mmWave-Whisper addresses challenges such as the lack of large scale training datasets, low SNR, and limited frequency information in radar data through a systematic pipeline designed to leverage synthetic training data, domain adaptation, and inference by incorporating OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition model. The system achieves a word accuracy rate of 44.74% and a character accuracy rate of 62.52% over a range of 25 cm to 125 cm. The paper highlights emerging misuse modalities of AI as the technology evolves rapidly.
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spellingShingle mmWave-Whisper: Phone Call Eavesdropping and Transcription Using Millimeter-Wave Radar
Basak, Suryoday
Padarthi, Abhijeeth
Gowda, Mahanth
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
This paper introduces mmWave-Whisper, a system that demonstrates the feasibility of full-corpus automated speech recognition (ASR) on phone calls eavesdropped remotely using off-the-shelf frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) millimeter-wave radars. Operating in the 77-81 GHz range, mmWave-Whisper captures earpiece vibrations from smartphones, converts them into audio, and processes the audio to produce speech transcriptions automatically. Unlike previous work that focused on loudspeakers or limited vocabulary, this is the first work to perform such a speech recognition by handling large vocabulary and full sentences on earpiece vibrations from smartphones. This approach expands the potential of radar-audio eavesdropping. mmWave-Whisper addresses challenges such as the lack of large scale training datasets, low SNR, and limited frequency information in radar data through a systematic pipeline designed to leverage synthetic training data, domain adaptation, and inference by incorporating OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition model. The system achieves a word accuracy rate of 44.74% and a character accuracy rate of 62.52% over a range of 25 cm to 125 cm. The paper highlights emerging misuse modalities of AI as the technology evolves rapidly.
title mmWave-Whisper: Phone Call Eavesdropping and Transcription Using Millimeter-Wave Radar
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17457