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Voice disguise, purposeful modification of one's speaker identity with the aim of avoiding being identified as oneself, is a low-effort way to fool speaker recognition, whether performed by a human or an automatic speaker verification (ASV)…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Rosa González Hautamäki , Anssi Kanervisto , Ville Hautamäki , Tomi Kinnunen

Whispering is a distinct form of speech known for its soft, breathy, and hushed characteristics, often used for private communication. The acoustic characteristics of whispered speech differ substantially from normally phonated speech and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Zhaofeng Lin , Tanvina Patel , Odette Scharenborg

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution designed to conceal the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and para-linguistic information of the original speech. While most prior studies focus…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Lei Xie

Recent research has proposed approaches that modify speech to defend against gender inference attacks. The goal of these protection algorithms is to control the availability of information about a speaker's gender, a privacy-sensitive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Loes van Bemmel , Zhuoran Liu , Nik Vaessen , Martha Larson

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He

In recent years, the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks have brought tremendous convenience. However, the training process of a highly effective model necessitates a substantial quantity of samples, which brings huge potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhisheng Zhang , Pengyang Huang

Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Voice conversion involves multiple speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Berrak Sisman , Junichi Yamagishi , Simon King , Haizhou Li

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

Disentangling speaker and content attributes of a speech signal into separate latent representations followed by decoding the content with an exchanged speaker representation is a popular approach for voice conversion, which can be trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Michael Kuhlmann , Fritz Seebauer , Janek Ebbers , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Sound event detection systems are widely used in various applications such as surveillance and environmental monitoring where data is automatically collected, processed, and sent to a cloud for sound recognition. However, this process may…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Shayan Gharib , Minh Tran , Diep Luong , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

The objective of this paper is to learn representations of speaker identity without access to manually annotated data. To do so, we develop a self-supervised learning objective that exploits the natural cross-modal synchrony between faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Arsha Nagrani , Joon Son Chung , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman

Speech is a common and effective way of communication between humans, and modern consumer devices such as smartphones and home hubs are equipped with deep learning based accurate automatic speech recognition to enable natural interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Moustafa Alzantot , Bharathan Balaji , Mani Srivastava

Automatic Speaker Diarization (ASD) is an enabling technology with numerous applications, which deals with recordings of multiple speakers, raising special concerns in terms of privacy. In fact, in remote settings, where recordings are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Francisco Teixeira , Alberto Abad , Bhiksha Raj , Isabel Trancoso

This paper describes a human-in-the-loop approach to personalized voice synthesis in the absence of reference speech data from the target speaker. It is intended to help vocally disabled individuals restore their lost voices without…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yusheng Tian , Junbin Liu , Tan Lee

In authentication scenarios, applications of practical speaker verification systems usually require a person to read a dynamic authentication text. Previous studies played an audio adversarial example as a digital signal to perform physical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Weiyi Zhang , Shuning Zhao , Le Liu , Jianmin Li , Xingliang Cheng , Thomas Fang Zheng , Xiaolin Hu

Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of acoustics-enabled personal devices powered by machine learning. Yet, machine learning has proven to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A large number of modern systems protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Shimaa Ahmed , Yash Wani , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Mohammad Yaghini , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot , Kassem Fawaz

In this paper we investigate the use of adversarial domain adaptation for addressing the problem of language mismatch between speaker recognition corpora. In the context of speaker verification, adversarial domain adaptation methods aim at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-07 Johan Rohdin , Themos Stafylakis , Anna Silnova , Hossein Zeinali , Lukas Burget , Oldrich Plchot

Recordings in everyday life require privacy preservation of the speech content and speaker identity. This contribution explores the influence of noise and reverberation on the trade-off between privacy and utility for low-cost…

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

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

The objective of this work is to train noise-robust speaker embeddings adapted for speaker diarisation. Speaker embeddings play a crucial role in the performance of diarisation systems, but they often capture spurious information such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-04 You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Youngki Kwon , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung