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Table 3 Typical audio-based CAPTCHAs

From: Human-artificial intelligence approaches for secure analysis in CAPTCHA codes

CAPTCHA

Challenge

Feature

Google Audio reCAPTCHA

- Version 2008: Recognize eight spoken digits against a background of human voices speaking backwards at varying volumes

- Version 2013: Identify all of the digits in the challenge that are divided into three clusters, each of which contains three or four overlapping digits

- Version 2017: Recognize ten spoken digits in the presence of background noise

Background, noise, cluster, overlap

eBay Audio CAPTCHA

Recognize six digits spoken in various voices with background noise

Six digits, background, noise

Yahoo Audio CAPTCHA

Recognize seven digits that appear after three beeps made by a child against a background of other children’s voices

Seven digits, background, noise

Microsoft Audio CAPTCHA

Recognize ten digits spoken in different voices over a regular background noise of several concurrent conversations

Ten digits, different voices, background