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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…

We introduce a sophisticated multi-speaker speech data simulator, specifically engineered to generate multi-speaker speech recordings. A notable feature of this simulator is its capacity to modulate the distribution of silence and overlap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Tae Jin Park , He Huang , Coleman Hooper , Nithin Koluguri , Kunal Dhawan , Ante Jukic , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

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

Given the speech generation framework that represents the speaker attribute with an embedding vector, asynchronous voice anonymization can be achieved by modifying the speaker embedding derived from the original speech. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhengpeng Zha , Zhenhua Ling

We propose a speaker selection mechanism (SSM) for the training of an end-to-end beamforming neural network, based on recent findings that a listener usually looks to the target speaker with a certain undershot angle. The mechanism allows…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Bruno Defraene , Johan David , Alex Young , Frans Widdershoven , Wim van Houtum , Ronald M. Aarts

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

Recent advancements in adversarial attacks have demonstrated their effectiveness in misleading speaker recognition models, making wrong predictions about speaker identities. On the other hand, defense techniques against speaker-adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Liping Chen , Chenyang Guo , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Wu Guo

Speaker verification, as a biometric authentication mechanism, has been widely used due to the pervasiveness of voice control on smart devices. However, the task of "in-the-wild" speaker verification is still challenging, considering the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Jianwei Tai , Xiaoqi Jia , Qingjia Huang , Weijuan Zhang , Haichao Du , Shengzhi Zhang

High-fidelity speech can be synthesized by end-to-end text-to-speech models in recent years. However, accessing and controlling speech attributes such as speaker identity, prosody, and emotion in a text-to-speech system remains a challenge.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Zexin Cai , Chuxiong Zhang , 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

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

Recently, fake audio detection has gained significant attention, as advancements in speech synthesis and voice conversion have increased the vulnerability of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems to spoofing attacks. A key challenge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Ju Yeon Kang , Ji Won Yoon , Semin Kim , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

The rise of AI-driven generative models has enabled the creation of highly realistic speech deepfakes - synthetic audio signals that can imitate target speakers' voices - raising critical security concerns. Existing methods for detecting…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Emma Coletta , Davide Salvi , Viola Negroni , Daniele Ugo Leonzio , Paolo Bestagini

Speaker identification systems are deployed in diverse environments, often different from the lab conditions on which they are trained and tested. In this paper, first, we show the problem of generalization using fixed thresholds (computed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Ashutosh Chaubey , Sparsh Sinha , Susmita Ghose

Discrete audio representations are gaining traction in speech modeling due to their interpretability and compatibility with large language models, but are not always optimized for noisy or real-world environments. Building on existing works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shreyas Gopal , Ashutosh Anshul , Haoyang Li , Yue Heng Yeo , Hexin Liu , Eng Siong Chng

The development of privacy-preserving automatic speaker verification systems has been the focus of a number of studies with the intent of allowing users to authenticate themselves without risking the privacy of their voice. However, current…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Francisco Teixeira , Alberto Abad , Bhiksha Raj , Isabel Trancoso

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a long-standing goal for speech processing, since it utilizes large-scale unlabeled data and avoids extensive human labeling. Recent years witness great successes in applying self-supervised learning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Chengyi Wang , Zhengyang Chen , Zhuo Chen , Shujie Liu , Jian Wu , Yao Qian , Furu Wei , Jinyu Li , Xiangzhan Yu

Learning-based Text To Speech systems have the potential to generalize from one speaker to the next and thus require a relatively short sample of any new voice. However, this promise is currently largely unrealized. We present a method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Eliya Nachmani , Adam Polyak , Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf

Voice anti-spoofing systems are crucial auxiliaries for automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems. A major challenge is caused by unseen attacks empowered by advanced speech synthesis technologies. Our previous research on one-class…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Siwen Ding , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan