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Research in the past several years has boosted the performance of automatic speaker verification systems and countermeasure systems to deliver low Equal Error Rates (EERs) on each system. However, research on joint optimization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zhongwei Teng , Quchen Fu , Jules White , Maria E. Powell , Douglas C. Schmidt

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

The advancements in generative AI have enabled the improvement of audio synthesis models, including text-to-speech and voice conversion. This raises concerns about its potential misuse in social manipulation and political interference, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Dinh-Thuc Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice cloning poses severe privacy risks, demanding the removal of specific speaker identities from trained TTS models. Conventional machine unlearning is insufficient in this context, as zero-shot TTS can…

This paper presents a new voice impersonation attack using voice conversion (VC). Enrolling personal voices for automatic speaker verification (ASV) offers natural and flexible biometric authentication systems. Basically, the ASV systems do…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Taiki Nakamura , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Yusuke Ijima , Hiroshi Saruwatari

We present a number of systems for the Voice Privacy Challenge, including voice conversion based systems such as the kNN-VC method and the WavLM voice Conversion method, and text-to-speech (TTS) based systems including Whisper-VITS. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Henry Li Xinyuan , Zexin Cai , Ashi Garg , Kevin Duh , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Nicholas Andrews , Matthew Wiesner

Voice authentication has become an integral part in security-critical operations, such as bank transactions and call center conversations. The vulnerability of automatic speaker verification systems (ASVs) to spoofing attacks instigated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Andre Kassis , Urs Hengartner

Social media has become a platform for people to stand up and raise their voices against social and criminal acts. Vocalization of such information has allowed the investigation and identification of criminals. However, revealing such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Supriti Vijay , Aman Priyanshu

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

This report describes the UNISOUND submission for Track1 and Track2 of VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2023 (VoxSRC 2023). We submit the same system on Track 1 and Track 2, which is trained with only VoxCeleb2-dev. Large-scale ResNet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Yu Zheng , Yajun Zhang , Chuanying Niu , Yibin Zhan , Yanhua Long , Dongxing Xu

The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenges (VoxSRC) were a series of challenges and workshops that ran annually from 2019 to 2023. The challenges primarily evaluated the tasks of speaker recognition and diarisation under various settings…

In this technical report we describe the IDLAB top-scoring submissions for the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2020 (VoxSRC-20) in the supervised and unsupervised speaker verification tracks. For the supervised verification tracks we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Kris Demuynck

Mature push button tools have emerged for checking trace properties (e.g. secrecy or authentication) of security protocols. The case of indistinguishability-based privacy properties (e.g. ballot privacy or anonymity) is more complex and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Véronique Cortier , Niklas Grimm , Joseph Lallemand , Matteo Maffei

The rapid progress in personalized speech generation technology, including personalized text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), poses a challenge in distinguishing between generated and real speech for human listeners, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Shihao Chen , Liping Chen , Jie Zhang , KongAik Lee , Zhenhua Ling , Lirong Dai

We held the second installment of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge in conjunction with Interspeech 2020. The goal of this challenge was to assess how well current speaker recognition technology is able to diarise and recognize…

Speaker verification has been widely and successfully adopted in many mission-critical areas for user identification. The training of speaker verification requires a large amount of data, therefore users usually need to adopt third-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Tongqing Zhai , Yiming Li , Ziqi Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

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

Over the last decade, the use of Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems has become increasingly widespread in response to the growing need for secure and efficient identity verification methods. The voice data encompasses a wealth of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Oubaïda Chouchane , Michele Panariello , Oualid Zari , Ismet Kerenciler , Imen Chihaoui , Massimiliano Todisco , Melek Önen

This paper describes our proposed integration system for the spoofing-aware speaker verification challenge. It consists of a robust spoofing-aware verification system that use the speaker verification and antispoofing embeddings extracted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Juan M. Martín-Doñas , Iván G. Torre , Aitor Álvarez , Joaquin Arellano

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