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The rising trend of using voice as a means of interacting with smart devices has sparked worries over the protection of users' privacy and data security. These concerns have become more pressing, especially after the European Union's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Suhita Ghosh , Yamini Sinha , Ingo Siegert , Sebastian Stober

Faced with the threat of identity leakage during voice data publishing, users are engaged in a privacy-utility dilemma when enjoying convenient voice services. Existing studies employ direct modification or text-based re-synthesis to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Meng Chen , Li Lu , Jiadi Yu , Yingying Chen , Zhongjie Ba , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

Voice anonymization techniques have been found to successfully obscure a speaker's acoustic identity in short, isolated utterances in benchmarks such as the VoicePrivacy Challenge. In practice, however, utterances seldom occur in isolation:…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Cristina Aggazzotti , Ashi Garg , Zexin Cai , Nicholas Andrews

Voice conversion for speaker anonymization is an emerging concept for privacy protection. In a deep learning setting, this is achieved by extracting multiple features from speech, altering the speaker identity, and waveform synthesis.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

The growing reliance on large-scale speech data has made privacy protection a critical concern. However, existing anonymization approaches often degrade data utility, for example by disrupting acoustic continuity or reducing vocal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Yunchong Xiao , Yuxiang Zhao , Ziyang Ma , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu , Jiachun Liao , Xie Chen

Voice-enabled interactions provide more human-like experiences in many popular IoT systems. Cloud-based speech analysis services extract useful information from voice input using speech recognition techniques. The voice signal is a rich…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

Speaker anonymization aims to protect the privacy of speakers while preserving spoken linguistic information from speech. Current mainstream neural network speaker anonymization systems are complicated, containing an F0 extractor, speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Natalia Tomashenko

Anonymization of voice seeks to conceal the identity of the speaker while maintaining the utility of speech data. However, residual speaker cues often persist, which pose privacy risks. We propose SegReConcat, a data augmentation method for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ridwan Arefeen , Xiaoxiao Miao , Rong Tong , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See

Voice anonymization protects speaker privacy by concealing identity while preserving linguistic and paralinguistic content. Self-supervised learning (SSL) representations encode linguistic features but preserve speaker traits. We propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Beilong Tang , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Ming Li

Facilitated by the speech generation framework that disentangles speech into content, speaker, and prosody, voice anonymization is accomplished by substituting the original speaker embedding vector with that of a pseudo-speaker. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Zeyan Liu , Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhenhua Ling

Voice input has been tremendously improving the user experience of mobile devices by freeing our hands from typing on the small screen. Speech recognition is the key technology that powers voice input, and it is usually outsourced to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Jianwei Qian , Haohua Du , Jiahui Hou , Linlin Chen , Taeho Jung , Xiang-Yang Li , Yu Wang , Yanbo Deng

The secure transmission of speech information is a significant issue faced by many security professionals and individuals. By applying voice-encryption technique any kind of encrypted sensitive speech data such as password can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Rupa Patel , Urmila Shrawankar

Voice authentication has undergone significant changes from traditional systems that relied on handcrafted acoustic features to deep learning models that can extract robust speaker embeddings. This advancement has expanded its applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kamel Kamel , Keshav Sood , Hridoy Sankar Dutta , Sunil Aryal

Voice data generated on instant messaging or social media applications contains unique user voiceprints that may be abused by malicious adversaries for identity inference or identity theft. Existing voice anonymization techniques, e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiangyi Deng , Fei Teng , Yanjiao Chen , Xiaofu Chen , Zhaohui Wang , Wenyuan Xu

The fast increase of web services and mobile apps, which collect personal data from users, increases the risk that their privacy may be severely compromised. In particular, the increasing variety of spoken language interfaces and voice…

This study focuses on the First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge within the ICASSP 2025 Signal Processing Grand Challenge, which aims to develop speaker verification systems capable of determining whether two anonymized speech signals are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Yanzhe Zhang , Zhonghao Bi , Feiyang Xiao , Xuefeng Yang , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jian Guan

The task of the challenge is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker's voice identity while protecting linguistic content and emotional states. The organizers provide development and evaluation…

In this paper, we investigate the impact of speech temporal dynamics in application to automatic speaker verification and speaker voice anonymization tasks. We propose several metrics to perform automatic speaker verification based only on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Natalia Tomashenko , Emmanuel Vincent , Marc Tommasi

Speaker anonymization systems continue to improve their ability to obfuscate the original speaker characteristics in a speech signal, but often create processing artifacts and unnatural sounding voices as a tradeoff. Many of those systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

The emergence of voice-assistant devices ushers in delightful user experiences not just on the smart home front, but also in diverse educational environments from classrooms to personalized-learning/tutoring. However, the use of voice as an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Mohammad Niknazar , Aditya Vempaty , Ravi Kokku