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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

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that conceals the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and paralinguistic information of the original speech. To establish a fair benchmark and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Jixun Yao , Nikita Kuzmin , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Dake Guo , Kong Aik Lee , Eng-Siong Chng , Lei Xie

In order to protect the privacy of speech data, speaker anonymization aims for hiding the identity of a speaker by changing the voice in speech recordings. This typically comes with a privacy-utility trade-off between protection of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sarina Meyer , Pascal Tilli , Pavel Denisov , Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

With the popularity of virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Alexa), the use of speech recognition is now becoming more and more widespread.However, speech signals contain a lot of sensitive information, such as the speaker's identity, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

Speech data on the Internet are proliferating exponentially because of the emergence of social media, and the sharing of such personal data raises obvious security and privacy concerns. One solution to mitigate these concerns involves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Yi Lei , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie , Namin Wang , Jie Liu

Speaker diarization is the process of labeling different speakers in a speech signal. Deep speaker embeddings are generally extracted from short speech segments and clustered to determine the segments belong to same speaker identity. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Myungjong Kim , Vijendra Raj Apsingekar , Divya Neelagiri

Human speech conveys prosody, linguistic content, and speaker identity. This article investigates a novel speaker anonymization approach using an end-to-end network based on a Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder (VQ-VAE) to deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Sotheara Leang , Anderson Augusma , Eric Castelli , Frédérique Letué , Sethserey Sam , Dominique Vaufreydaz

For the most popular x-vector-based approaches to speaker anonymisation, the bulk of the anonymisation can stem from vocoding rather than from the core anonymisation function which is used to substitute an original speaker x-vector with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Michele Panariello , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

The VoicePrivacy Challenge promotes the development of voice anonymisation solutions for speech technology. In this paper we present a systematic overview and analysis of the second edition held in 2022. We describe the voice anonymisation…

Speaker anonymization is the task of modifying a speech recording such that the original speaker cannot be identified anymore. Since the first Voice Privacy Challenge in 2020, along with the release of a framework, the popularity of this…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Sarina Meyer , Xiaoxiao Miao , Ngoc Thang Vu

This paper presents the results and analyses stemming from the first VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge which focuses on developing anonymization solutions for speech technology. We provide a systematic overview of the challenge design with an…

Sharing real-world speech utterances is key to the training and deployment of voice-based services. However, it also raises privacy risks as speech contains a wealth of personal data. Speaker anonymization aims to remove speaker information…

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

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

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

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

In the scenario of the Voice Privacy challenge, anonymization is achieved by converting all utterances from a source speaker to match the same target identity; this identity being randomly selected. In this context, an attacker with maximum…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

A general disentanglement-based speaker anonymization system typically separates speech into content, speaker, and prosody features using individual encoders. This paper explores how to adapt such a system when a new speech attribute, for…

Voice anonymisation can be used to help protect speaker privacy when speech data is shared with untrusted others. In most practical applications, while the voice identity should be sanitised, other attributes such as the spoken content…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Michele Panariello , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

Current speaker anonymization methods, especially with self-supervised learning (SSL) models, require massive computational resources when hiding speaker identity. This paper proposes an effective and parameter-efficient speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Xiaojiao Chen , Sheng Li , Jiyi Li , Hao Huang , Yang Cao , Liang He