Title
An Audio CAPTCHA to Distinguish Humans from Computers
Abstract
CAPTCHAs are employed as a security measure to differentiate human users from bots. A new sound-based CAPTCHA is proposed in this paper, which exploits the gaps between human voice and synthetic voice rather than relays on the auditory perception of human. The user is required to read out a given sentence, which is selected randomly from a specified book. The generated audio file will be analyzed automatically to judge whether the user is a human or not. In this paper, the design of the new CAPTCHA, the analysis of the audio files, and the choice of the audio frame window function are described in detail. And also, some experiments are conducted to fix the critical threshold and the coefficients of three indicators to ensure the security. The proposed audio CAPTCHA is proved accessible to users. The user study has shown that the human success rate reaches approximately 97% and the pass rate of attack software using Microsoft SDK 5.1 is only 4%. The experiments also indicated that it could be solved by most human users in less than 14 seconds and the average time is only 7.8 seconds.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISECS.2010.65
Electronic Commerce and Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
human auditory perception,new captcha,natural voice,speech processing,synthetic voice,security,new sound-based captcha,audio frame window function,audio captcha,human voice,user study,proposed audio captcha,distinguish humans,audio files,authentication,critical threshold,security measurement,captcha,pass rate,human success rate,human user,audio file,security of data,natural languages,speech,speech recognition
Speech processing,Human voice,Authentication,Computer science,Exploit,Speech recognition,Software,Natural language,CAPTCHA,Sentence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISBN
abs/1306.2885
null
978-1-4244-8231-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.68
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haichang Gao117217.41
Honggang Liu2150.68
Dan Yao3150.68
Xiyang Liu415918.55
Uwe Aickelin51679153.63