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How secure automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology is? More concretely, given a specific target speaker, how likely is it to find another person who gets falsely accepted as that target? This question may be addressed empirically by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Alexey Sholokhov , Tomi Kinnunen , Ville Vestman , Kong Aik Lee

Speaker verification is a task of confirming an individual's identity through the analysis of their voice. Whispered speech differs from phonated speech in acoustic characteristics, which degrades the performance of speaker verification…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Magdalena Gołębiowska , Piotr Syga

Anonymisation has the goal of manipulating speech signals in order to degrade the reliability of automatic approaches to speaker recognition, while preserving other aspects of speech, such as those relating to intelligibility and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-02 Jose Patino , Natalia Tomashenko , Massimiliano Todisco , Andreas Nautsch , Nicholas Evans

Privacy-preserving voice protection approaches primarily suppress privacy-related information derived from paralinguistic attributes while preserving the linguistic content. Existing solutions focus particularly on single-speaker scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaoxiao Miao , Ruijie Tao , Chang Zeng , Xin Wang

Voice anonymization masks vocal traits while preserving linguistic content, which may still leak speaker-specific patterns. To assess and strengthen privacy evaluation, we propose a dual-stream attacker that fuses spectral and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ridwan Arefeen , Xiaoxiao Miao , Rong Tong , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See , Timothy Liu

We propose SpeakerNet - a new neural architecture for speaker recognition and speaker verification tasks. It is composed of residual blocks with 1D depth-wise separable convolutions, batch-normalization, and ReLU layers. This architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jason Li , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity without degrading speech quality and intelligibility. Most speaker anonymization systems disentangle the speaker representation from the original speech and achieve anonymization by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yuanjun Lv , Jixun Yao , Peikun Chen , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

Advances in speech technology now allow unprecedented access to personally identifiable information through speech. To protect such information, the differential privacy field has explored ways to anonymize speech while preserving its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Ashi Garg , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Nicholas Andrews , Matthew Wiesner

The VoicePrivacy initiative aims to promote the development of privacy preservation tools for speech technology by gathering a new community to define the tasks of interest and the evaluation methodology, and benchmarking solutions through…

In this work, we propose a speaker anonymization pipeline that leverages high quality automatic speech recognition and synthesis systems to generate speech conditioned on phonetic transcriptions and anonymized speaker embeddings. Using…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Sarina Meyer , Florian Lux , Pavel Denisov , Julia Koch , Pascal Tilli , Ngoc Thang Vu

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal speaker-specific attributes in speech signals, making the anonymized speech unlinkable to the original speaker identity. Recent approaches achieve this by disentangling speech into content and speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Kong Aik Lee , Zeyan Liu , Liping Chen , Zhenhua Ling

Speaker anonymization aims to suppress speaker individuality to protect privacy in speech while preserving the other aspects, such as speech content. One effective solution for anonymization is to modify the McAdams coefficient. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Candy Olivia Mawalim , Masashi Unoki

The performance of a voice anonymization system is typically measured according to its ability to hide the speaker's identity and keep the data's utility for downstream tasks. This means that the requirements the anonymization should…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Sarina Meyer , Ngoc Thang Vu

This paper explores various attack scenarios on a voice anonymization system using embeddings alignment techniques. We use Wasserstein-Procrustes (an algorithm initially designed for unsupervised translation) or Procrustes analysis to match…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Pierre Champion , Thomas Thebaud , Gaël Le Lan , Anthony Larcher , Denis Jouvet

The goal of voice anonymization is to modify an audio such that the true identity of its speaker is hidden. Research on this task is typically limited to the same English read speech datasets, thus the efficacy of current methods for other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Sarina Meyer , Ekaterina Kolos , Ngoc Thang Vu

The temporal dynamics of speech, encompassing variations in rhythm, intonation, and speaking rate, contain important and unique information about speaker identity. This paper proposes a new method for representing speaker characteristics by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Natalia Tomashenko , Emmanuel Vincent , Marc Tommasi

This paper presents the NWPU-ASLP speaker anonymization system for VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge. Our submission does not involve additional Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) model or x-vector pool. Our system consists of four modules,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Li Zhang , Pengcheng Guo , Yuhao Liang , Lei Xie

End-to-end models are fast replacing the conventional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition. Transformer, a sequence-to-sequence model, based on self-attention popularly used in machine translation tasks, has given promising results…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Vishwas M. Shetty , Metilda Sagaya Mary N J , S. Umesh

In the era of big data, remarkable advancements have been achieved in personalized speech generation techniques that utilize speaker attributes, including voice and speaking style, to generate deepfake speech. This has also amplified global…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Xin Wang , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomoki Toda , Haizhou Li

Voice anonymization systems aim to protect speaker privacy by obscuring vocal traits while preserving the linguistic content relevant for downstream applications. However, because these linguistic cues remain intact, they can be exploited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ahmad Aloradi , Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Daniel Tenbrinck