Towards Proactive Protection against Unauthorized Speech Synthesis

The rapid advancement of artificial speech synthesis technologies, fueled by generative AI (GenAI), presents both opportunities and potential threats to society. While offering unprecedented opportunities, these technologies have been exploited to create "DeepFake" speech for fraud, impersonation, and spreading disinformation, as evidenced by recent real-world incidents. Our research aims to address such emerging threats by exploring a novel, proactive approach to disrupt unauthorized speech synthesis.