Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating liveness detection of a user. During operation, the system presents a verification interface to the user in a local display device. The verification interface includes one or more phrases and a reading style for a respective phrase in which the user is expected to recite the phrase. The system then obtains a voice signal based on the user's recitation of the one or more phrases via a voice input device of the system and determines whether the user's recitation of a respective phrase has complied with the corresponding reading style. If the user's recitation of a respective phrase has complied with the corresponding reading style, the system establishes liveness for the user.