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The widespread of powerful personal devices capable of collecting voice of their users has opened the opportunity to build speaker adapted speech recognition system (ASR) or to participate to collaborative learning of ASR. In both cases,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Salima Mdhaffar , Jean-François Bonastre , Marc Tommasi , Natalia Tomashenko , Yannick Estève

End-to-end neural speaker diarization systems are able to address the speaker diarization task while effectively handling speech overlap. This work explores the incorporation of speaker information embeddings into the end-to-end systems to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Juan Ignacio Alvarez-Trejos , Beltrán Labrador , Alicia Lozano-Diez

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

Speaker anonymization systems hide the identity of speakers while preserving other information such as linguistic content and emotions. To evaluate their privacy benefits, attacks in the form of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems…

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

While speech-based depression detection methods that use speaker-identity features, such as speaker embeddings, are popular, they often compromise patient privacy. To address this issue, we propose a speaker disentanglement method that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Jinhan Wang , Vijay Ravi , Abeer Alwan

In an age of voice-enabled technology, voice anonymization offers a solution to protect people's privacy, provided these systems work equally well across subgroups. This study investigates bias in voice anonymization systems within the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Anna Leschanowsky , Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

Speaker diarization(SD) is a classic task in speech processing and is crucial in multi-party scenarios such as meetings and conversations. Current mainstream speaker diarization approaches consider acoustic information only, which result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhang Qinglin , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen

We propose a new method for speaker diarization that can handle overlapping speech with 2+ people. Our method is based on compositional embeddings [1]: Like standard speaker embedding methods such as x-vector [2], compositional embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Zeqian Li , Jacob Whitehill

Speaker diarization relies on the assumption that speech segments corresponding to a particular speaker are concentrated in a specific region of the speaker space; a region which represents that speaker's identity. These identities are not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Over the last few years, deep learning has grown in popularity for speaker verification, identification, and diarization. Inarguably, a significant part of this success is due to the demonstrated effectiveness of their speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yehoshua Dissen , Felix Kreuk , Joseph Keshet

Speaker diarization, the process of segmenting an audio stream or transcribed speech content into homogenous partitions based on speaker identity, plays a crucial role in the interpretation and analysis of human speech. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rongjie Huang , Qinglin Zhang , Qian Chen , Xihao Li

Deep speaker embeddings have been shown effective for assessing cognitive impairments aside from their original purpose of speaker verification. However, the research found that speaker embeddings encode speaker identity and an array of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Dongseok Heo , Cheul Young Park , Jaemin Cheun , Myung Jin Ko

In this work, we address a novel, but potentially emerging, problem of discriminating the natural human voices and those played back by any kind of audio devices in the context of interactions with in-house voice user interface. The tackled…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Thanh-Ha Le , Philippe Gilberton , Ngoc Q. K. Duong

Our goal is to isolate individual speakers from multi-talker simultaneous speech in videos. Existing works in this area have focussed on trying to separate utterances from known speakers in controlled environments. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Texts convey sophisticated knowledge. However, texts also convey sensitive information. Despite the success of general-purpose language models and domain-specific mechanisms with differential privacy (DP), existing text sanitization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Xiang Yue , Minxin Du , Tianhao Wang , Yaliang Li , Huan Sun , Sherman S. M. Chow

This study investigates the explainability of embedding representations, specifically those used in modern audio spoofing detection systems based on deep neural networks, known as spoof embeddings. Building on established work in speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi , Md Sahidullah , Tomi kinnunen

The analysis of conversations recorded in everyday life requires privacy protection. In this contribution, we explore a privacy-preserving feature extraction method based on input feature dimension reduction, spectral smoothing and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Francesco Nespoli , Jule Pohlhausen , Patrick A. Naylor , Joerg Bitzer

This paper addresses the problem of single-channel speech separation, where the number of speakers is unknown, and each speaker may speak multiple utterances. We propose a speech separation model that simultaneously performs separation,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

The goal of this work is to train robust speaker recognition models without speaker labels. Recent works on unsupervised speaker representations are based on contrastive learning in which they encourage within-utterance embeddings to be…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Jaesung Huh , Hee Soo Heo , Jingu Kang , Shinji Watanabe , Joon Son Chung

Speaker extraction (SE) aims to segregate the speech of a target speaker from a mixture of interfering speakers with the help of auxiliary information. Several forms of auxiliary information have been employed in single-channel SE, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets