The Vulnerability of Neural Audio Watermarks under Speech Enhancement

arXiv:2609.29040 · cs.SD, cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/resemble-ai/Perth

Terminology

• Robustness — 10× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Flow Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• International Conference on Learning Representations — 1× in this paper
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Score Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Structural Integrity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Qwen3-Omni Technical Report
• WavMark: Watermarking for Audio Generation
• HarmonicAttack: An Adaptive Cross-Domain Audio Watermark Removal
• Audio Pirates: Black-box Audio Watermark Removal via Diffusion Priors
• A Comparison of Generative and Discriminative Methods for Speech Enhancement: Robustness, Complexity, and Hallucination
• UniSE: A Unified Framework for Decoder-Only Autoregressive LM-Based Speech Enhancement
• High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression

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