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Record W4416854662 · doi:10.1145/3779062

VoiceFormer: Fusing Non-Acoustic Motion Sensors for High-Fidelity Voice Synthesis in Mobile Devices

2025· article· en· W4416854662 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueACM Transactions on Privacy and Security · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMusic Technology and Sound Studies
Canadian institutionsArtificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
FundersKey Research and Development Projects of Shaanxi ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsAccelerometerMobile deviceGyroscopeEavesdroppingSIGNAL (programming language)Motion (physics)Leverage (statistics)Motion sensors

Abstract

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With the popularity of mobile devices, a variety of motion sensors are integrated to enhance the user experience. Although existing studies demonstrated that non-acoustic motion sensors can be attacked by adversaries, they overlook the limited sampling frequencies of motion sensors (e.g., < 500 Hz) in mobile devices and are evaluated in the controlled laboratory settings. In this article, we explore a new attack model on non-acoustic motion sensors based on the off-the-shelf mobile devices. We propose a general framework named VoiceFormer to synthesize high-fidelity speeches based on the vibrations of accelerometers and gyroscopes with a low sampling frequency. Specifically, in VoiceFormer , we introduce a signal alignment approach to remove the time offsets between two nonsynchronous signals, and leverage Time Interleaved Analog-Digital-Conversion (TI-ADC) to generate a high-frequency synthetic signal (e.g., > 8 KHz) based on the vibration signals of accelerometers and gyroscopes on the same motherboard. To synthesize the high-fidelity acoustic waveforms, we propose a wavelet-based generative adversarial network to learn the spatiotemporal latent mapping between vibrations and original speech signals. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of voice synthesis by spying the low-frequency non-acoustic motion sensors in off-the-shelf mobile devices. VoiceFormer shows impressive performance in the synthesized acoustical signals with a Mean Opinion Score of 3.38. Although there are significant differences of mobile devices in hardware settings, VoiceFormer shows robust performance in synthesizing intelligible voice signals. Our results suggest that eavesdropping an off-the-shelf mobile device remotely by fusing non-acoustic sensors is feasible.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.936
Threshold uncertainty score0.624

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it