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Automatic speech recognition and voice identification systems are being deployed in a wide array of applications, from providing control mechanisms to devices lacking traditional interfaces, to the automatic transcription of conversations…

Our behavior (the way we talk, walk, act or think) is unique and can be used as a biometric trait. It also correlates with sensitive attributes like emotions and health conditions. Hence, techniques to protect individuals privacy against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Simon Hanisch , Patricia Arias-Cabarcos , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

To enable process analysis based on an event log without compromising the privacy of individuals involved in process execution, a log may be anonymized. Such anonymization strives to transform a log so that it satisfies provable privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Fabian Rösel , Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen , Han van der Aa , Matthias Weidlich

The development of privacy-preserving automatic speaker verification systems has been the focus of a number of studies with the intent of allowing users to authenticate themselves without risking the privacy of their voice. However, current…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Francisco Teixeira , Alberto Abad , Bhiksha Raj , Isabel Trancoso

Organizations are collecting vast amounts of data, but they often lack the capabilities needed to fully extract insights. As a result, they increasingly share data with external experts, such as analysts or researchers, to gain value from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yusi Wei , Hande Y. Benson , Joseph K. Agor , Muge Capan

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

Generative audio technologies now enable highly realistic voice cloning and real-time voice conversion, increasing the risk of impersonation, fraud, and misinformation in communication channels such as phone and video calls. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Prajwal Chinchmalatpure , Suyash Chinchmalatpure , Siddharth Chavan

Social chatbots, also known as chit-chat chatbots, evolve rapidly with large pretrained language models. Despite the huge progress, privacy concerns have arisen recently: training data of large language models can be extracted via model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Haoran Li , Yangqiu Song , Lixin Fan

The proliferation of smart, connected, always listening devices have introduced significant privacy risks to users in a smart home environment. Beyond the notable risk of eavesdropping, intruders can adopt machine learning techniques to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Olakunle Ibitoye , Ashraf Matrawy , M. Omair Shafiq

Given the speech generation framework that represents the speaker attribute with an embedding vector, asynchronous voice anonymization can be achieved by modifying the speaker embedding derived from the original speech. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhengpeng Zha , Zhenhua Ling

Precise control over speech characteristics, such as pitch, duration, and speech rate, remains a significant challenge in the field of voice conversion. The ability to manipulate parameters like pitch and syllable rate is an important…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mathilde Abrassart , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

The technique of transforming voices in order to hide the real identity of a speaker is called voice disguise, among which automatic voice disguise (AVD) by modifying the spectral and temporal characteristics of voices with miscellaneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Linlin Zheng , Jiakang Li , Meng Sun , Xiongwei Zhang , Thomas Fang Zheng

The increasing demand for large-scale visual data, coupled with strict privacy regulations, has driven research into anonymization methods that hide personal identities without seriously degrading data quality. In this paper, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mustafa İzzet Muştu , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Audio is one of the most used ways of human communication, but at the same time it can be easily misused to trick people. With the revolution of AI, the related technologies are now accessible to almost everyone, thus making it simple for…

Data privacy is an increasingly important aspect of many real-world Data sources that contain sensitive information may have immense potential which could be unlocked using the right privacy enhancing transformations, but current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 John Martinsson , Edvin Listo Zec , Daniel Gillblad , Olof Mogren

Data privacy is one of the key challenges faced by enterprises today. Anonymization techniques address this problem by sanitizing sensitive data such that individual privacy is preserved while allowing enterprises to maintain and share…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-02-08 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta , Raj Acharya

The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. There is a large body of work that examines anonymization vulnerabilities. Focusing on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Paul Francis , David Wagner

Anonymizing textual documents is a highly context-sensitive problem: the appropriate balance between privacy protection and utility preservation varies with the data domain, privacy objectives, and downstream application. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Gabriel Loiseau , Damien Sileo , Damien Riquet , Maxime Meyer , Marc Tommasi

New security and privacy concerns arise due to the growing popularity of voice assistant (VA) deployments in home and enterprise networks. A number of past research results have demonstrated how malicious actors can use hidden commands to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Zhengxian He , Mohit Narayan Rajput , Mustaque Ahamad

This paper proposes a sensor data anonymization model that is trained on decentralized data and strikes a desirable trade-off between data utility and privacy, even in heterogeneous settings where the sensor data have different underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xin Yang , Omid Ardakanian