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This paper presents SpecWav-Attack, an adversarial model for detecting speakers in anonymized speech. It leverages Wav2Vec2 for feature extraction and incorporates spectrogram resizing and incremental training for improved performance.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yuqi Li , Yuanzhong Zheng , Zhongtian Guo , Yaoxuan Wang , Jianjun Yin , Haojun Fei

In the scenario of the Voice Privacy challenge, anonymization is achieved by converting all utterances from a source speaker to match the same target identity; this identity being randomly selected. In this context, an attacker with maximum…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

With the advances in deep learning, speaker verification has achieved very high accuracy and is gaining popularity as a type of biometric authentication option in many scenes of our daily life, especially the growing market of web services.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ke Li , Cameron Baird , Dan Lin

Data augmentation (DA) has played a pivotal role in the success of deep speaker recognition. Current DA techniques primarily focus on speaker-preserving augmentation, which does not change the speaker trait of the speech and does not create…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhenyu Zhou , Shibiao Xu , Shi Yin , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Speaker anonymization aims to suppress speaker individuality to protect privacy in speech while preserving the other aspects, such as speech content. One effective solution for anonymization is to modify the McAdams coefficient. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Candy Olivia Mawalim , Masashi Unoki

Human voices can be used to authenticate the identity of the speaker, but the automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are vulnerable to voice spoofing attacks, such as impersonation, replay, text-to-speech, and voice conversion.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 You Zhang , Fei Jiang , Zhiyao Duan

Privacy and security are major concerns when communicating speech signals to cloud services such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech emotion recognition (SER). Existing solutions for speech anonymization mainly focus on voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Minh Tran , Mohammad Soleymani

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems are increasingly used in voice bio-metrics for user authentication but are susceptible to logical and physical spoofing attacks, posing security risks. Existing research mainly tackles logical or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Awais Khan , Khalid Mahmood Malik

Speech anonymization and de-identification have garnered significant attention recently, especially in the healthcare area including telehealth consultations, patient voiceprint matching, and patient real-time monitoring. Speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ming Cheng , Xingjian Diao , Shitong Cheng , Wenjun Liu

The temporal dynamics of speech, encompassing variations in rhythm, intonation, and speaking rate, contain important and unique information about speaker identity. This paper proposes a new method for representing speaker characteristics by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Natalia Tomashenko , Emmanuel Vincent , Marc Tommasi

Speaker verification is a task of confirming an individual's identity through the analysis of their voice. Whispered speech differs from phonated speech in acoustic characteristics, which degrades the performance of speaker verification…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Magdalena Gołębiowska , Piotr Syga

Adolescent suicide is a critical global health issue, and speech provides a cost-effective modality for automatic suicide risk detection. Given the vulnerable population, protecting speaker identity is particularly important, as speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Ziyun Cui , Sike Jia , Yang Lin , Yinan Duan , Diyang Qu , Runsen Chen , Chao Zhang , Chang Lei , Wen Wu

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

The proliferation of speech technologies and rising privacy legislation calls for the development of privacy preservation solutions for speech applications. These are essential since speech signals convey a wealth of rich, personal and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Paul-Gauthier Noé , Jean-François Bonastre , Driss Matrouf , Natalia Tomashenko , Andreas Nautsch , Nicholas Evans

Spoofed audio, i.e. audio that is manipulated or AI-generated deepfake audio, is difficult to detect when only using acoustic features. Some recent innovative work involving AI-spoofed audio detection models augmented with phonetic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Zahra Khanjani , Christine Mallinson , James Foulds , Vandana P Janeja

Privacy-preserving voice protection approaches primarily suppress privacy-related information derived from paralinguistic attributes while preserving the linguistic content. Existing solutions focus particularly on single-speaker scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaoxiao Miao , Ruijie Tao , Chang Zeng , Xin Wang

In the era of big data, remarkable advancements have been achieved in personalized speech generation techniques that utilize speaker attributes, including voice and speaking style, to generate deepfake speech. This has also amplified global…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Xin Wang , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomoki Toda , Haizhou Li

The social media revolution has produced a plethora of web services to which users can easily upload and share multimedia documents. Despite the popularity and convenience of such services, the sharing of such inherently personal data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Fuming Fang , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans , Jean-Francois Bonastre

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

Speech data conveys sensitive speaker attributes like identity or accent. With a small amount of found data, such attributes can be inferred and exploited for malicious purposes: voice cloning, spoofing, etc. Anonymization aims to make the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava , Nathalie Vauquier , Md Sahidullah , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Emmanuel Vincent