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Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity, without considering the linguistic content. In this study, we reveal a weakness of Librispeech, the dataset that is commonly used to evaluate anonymizers: the books read by the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Carlos Franzreb , Arnab Das , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Möller

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…

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

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

In contemporary society, voice-controlled devices, such as smartphones and home assistants, have become pervasive due to their advanced capabilities and functionality. The always-on nature of their microphones offers users the convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuchen Liu , Apu Kapadia , Donald Williamson

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

Smart devices serviced by large-scale AI models necessitates user data transfer to the cloud for inference. For speech applications, this means transferring private user information, e.g., speaker identity. Our paper proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Md Asif Jalal , Pablo Peso Parada , Jisi Zhang , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Mete Ozay , Myoungji Han , Jung In Lee , Seokyeong Jung

For many decades, research in speech technologies has focused upon improving reliability. With this now meeting user expectations for a range of diverse applications, speech technology is today omni-present. As result, a focus on security…

Existing privacy-preserving speech representation learning methods target a single application domain. In this paper, we present a novel framework to anonymize utterance-level speech embeddings generated by pre-trained encoders and show its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Minh Tran , Mohammad Soleymani

Speaker embeddings are ubiquitous, with applications ranging from speaker recognition and diarization to speech synthesis and voice anonymisation. The amount of information held by these embeddings lends them versatility, but also raises…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Francisco Teixeira , Alberto Abad , Bhiksha Raj , Isabel Trancoso

Protecting speaker identity is crucial for online voice applications, yet streaming speaker anonymization (SA) remains underexplored. Recent research has demonstrated that neural audio codec (NAC) provides superior speaker feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Nikita Kuzmin , Songting Liu , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

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 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

While audio recordings in real life provide insights into social dynamics and conversational behavior, they also raise concerns about the privacy of personal, sensitive data. This article explores the effectiveness of restricting recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Jule Pohlhausen , Jörg Bitzer

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving content information in speech. Current mainstream neural-network speaker anonymization systems disentangle speech into prosody-related, content, and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Natalia Tomashenko

The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

Given the increasing privacy concerns from identity theft and the re-identification of speakers through content in the speech field, this paper proposes a prompt-based speech generation pipeline that ensures dual anonymization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Belinda Soh Hui Hui , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang

The proliferation of textual data containing sensitive personal information across various domains requires robust anonymization techniques to protect privacy and comply with regulations, while preserving data usability for diverse and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tobias Deußer , Lorenz Sparrenberg , Armin Berger , Max Hahnbück , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

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…

Speaker attribute perturbation offers a feasible approach to asynchronous voice anonymization by employing adversarially perturbed speech as anonymized output. In order to enhance the identity unlinkability among anonymized utterances from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Liping Chen , Chenyang Guo , Rui Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Zhenhua Ling