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Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without speaker labels is still challenging and worthwhile to explore. In this study, we propose an effective self-supervised learning framework and a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Mufan Sang , Haoqi Li , Fang Liu , Andrew O. Arnold , Li Wan

The speech representations learned from large-scale unlabeled data have shown better generalizability than those from supervised learning and thus attract a lot of interest to be applied for various downstream tasks. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhengyang Chen , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Yao Qian , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

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

In real-world applications, it is challenging to build a speaker verification system that is simultaneously robust against common threats, including spoofing attacks, channel mismatch, and domain mismatch. Traditional automatic speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Chang Zeng , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

Most of the existing speaker anonymization research has focused on single-speaker audio, leading to the development of techniques and evaluation metrics optimized for such condition. This study addresses the significant challenge of speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Natalia Tomashenko , Junichi Yamagishi , Xin Wang , Yun Liu , Emmanuel Vincent

It is well known that speaker verification systems are subject to spoofing attacks. The Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge -- ASVSpoof2015 -- provides a standard spoofing database, containing attacks based…

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) models have produced promising results in a variety of speech-processing tasks, especially in contexts of data scarcity. In this paper, we study the use of SSL models for the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jazmin Vidal , Pablo Riera , Luciana Ferrer

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models, which can serve as powerful upstream models to extract meaningful speech representations, have achieved unprecedented success in speech representation learning. However, their effectiveness on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tung-Yu Wu , Chen-An Li , Tzu-Han Lin , Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Hung-Yi Lee

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has allowed leveraging large amounts of unlabeled speech data to improve the performance of speech recognition models even with small annotated datasets. Despite this, speech SSL representations may fail while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Salah Zaiem , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid

Speech enhancement and separation are two fundamental tasks for robust speech processing. Speech enhancement suppresses background noise while speech separation extracts target speech from interfering speakers. Despite a great number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Shu-wen Yang , Paola Garcia , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) is the process of identifying a person based on the voice presented to a system. Different synthetic approaches allow spoofing to deceive ASV systems (ASVs), whether using techniques to imitate a voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Mohammad Adiban , Hossein Sameti , Saeedreza Shehnepoor

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models are extensively used for full-stack speech processing. However, it has been observed that improving SSL-based speech representations using unlabeled speech for content-related tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Amit Meghanani , Thomas Hain

A number of studies have successfully developed speaker verification or presentation attack detection systems. However, studies integrating the two tasks remain in the preliminary stages. In this paper, we propose two approaches for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Hye-jin Shim , Jee-weon Jung , Ju-ho Kim , Seung-bin Kim , Ha-Jin Yu

The technique of transforming voices in order to hide the real identity of a speaker is called voice disguise, among which automatic voice disguise (AVD) by modifying the spectral and temporal characteristics of voices with miscellaneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Linlin Zheng , Jiakang Li , Meng Sun , Xiongwei Zhang , Thomas Fang Zheng

Speaker anonymization aims to protect speaker identity while preserving content information and the intelligibility of speech. However, most speaker anonymization systems (SASs) are developed and evaluated using only English, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Zhe Zhang , Wen-Chin Huang , Xin Wang , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Speaker representation learning is crucial for voice recognition systems, with recent advances in self-supervised approaches reducing dependency on labeled data. Current two-stage iterative frameworks, while effective, suffer from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Danwei Cai , Zexin Cai , Ze Li , Ming Li

We study the effectiveness of several techniques to personalize end-to-end speech models and improve the recognition of proper names relevant to the user. These techniques differ in the amounts of user effort required to provide…

This paper addresses source tracing in synthetic speech-identifying generative systems behind manipulated audio via speaker recognition-inspired pipelines. While prior work focuses on spoofing detection, source tracing lacks robust…

In this paper, we propose an iterative framework for self-supervised speaker representation learning based on a deep neural network (DNN). The framework starts with training a self-supervision speaker embedding network by maximizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Danwei Cai , Weiqing Wang , Ming Li