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This paper investigates methods to effectively retrieve speaker information from the personalized speaker adapted neural network acoustic models (AMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR). This problem is especially important in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Natalia Tomashenko , Salima Mdhaffar , Marc Tommasi , Yannick Estève , Jean-François Bonastre

The growing reliance on large-scale speech data has made privacy protection a critical concern. However, existing anonymization approaches often degrade data utility, for example by disrupting acoustic continuity or reducing vocal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Yunchong Xiao , Yuxiang Zhao , Ziyang Ma , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu , Jiachun Liao , Xie Chen

Speech data carries a range of personal information, such as the speaker's identity and emotional state. These attributes can be used for malicious purposes. With the development of virtual assistants, a new generation of privacy threats…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Hubert Nourtel , Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher , Marie Tahon

While speech-based depression detection methods that use speaker-identity features, such as speaker embeddings, are popular, they often compromise patient privacy. To address this issue, we propose a speaker disentanglement method that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Jinhan Wang , Vijay Ravi , Abeer Alwan

The evaluation of voice anonymisation remains challenging. Current practice relies on automatic speaker verification metrics such as the equal error rate (EER). Performance estimates dependent on the classifier and operating point provide…

The spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge was designed to promote the study of jointly-optimised solutions to accomplish the traditionally separately-optimised tasks of spoofing detection and speaker verification.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Wanying Ge , Hemlata Tak , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

Being a form of biometric identification, the security of the speaker identification (SID) system is of utmost importance. To better understand the robustness of SID systems, we aim to perform more realistic attacks in SID, which are…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Qing Wang , Jixun Yao , Zhaokai Sun , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie , John H. L. Hansen

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 this paper, we propose a novel way of addressing text-dependent automatic speaker verification (TD-ASV) by using a shared-encoder with task-specific decoders. An autoregressive predictive coding (APC) encoder is pre-trained in an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Vijay Ravi , Ruchao Fan , Amber Afshan , Huanhua Lu , Abeer Alwan

Recently, automatic speaker verification (ASV) based on deep learning is easily contaminated by adversarial attacks, which is a new type of attack that injects imperceptible perturbations to audio signals so as to make ASV produce wrong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Yibo Bai , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology is recently finding its way to end-user applications for secure access to personal data, smart services or physical facilities. Similar to other biometric technologies, speaker verification is…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Cemal Hanilci , Tomi Kinnunen , Md Sahidullah , Aleksandr Sizov

Voice privacy approaches that preserve the anonymity of speakers modify speech in an attempt to break the link with the true identity of the speaker. Current benchmarks measure speaker protection based on signal-to-signal comparisons. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mehtab Ur Rahman , Martha Larson , Cristian Tejedor-Garcia

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

Spoofing attacks posed by generating artificial speech can severely degrade the performance of a speaker verification system. Recently, many anti-spoofing countermeasures have been proposed for detecting varying types of attacks from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Yuanjun Zhao , Roberto Togneri , Victor Sreeram

In recent years, the need for privacy preservation when manipulating or storing personal data, including speech , has become a major issue. In this paper, we present a system addressing the speaker-level anonymization problem. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Francesco Nespoli , Daniel Barreda , Joerg Bitzer , Patrick A. Naylor

Detecting spoofing attempts of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems is challenging, especially when using only one modeling approach. For robustness, we use both deep neural networks and traditional machine learning models and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Bhusan Chettri , Daniel Stoller , Veronica Morfi , Marco A. Martínez Ramírez , Emmanouil Benetos , Bob L. Sturm

Voice anonymization techniques have been found to successfully obscure a speaker's acoustic identity in short, isolated utterances in benchmarks such as the VoicePrivacy Challenge. In practice, however, utterances seldom occur in isolation:…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Cristina Aggazzotti , Ashi Garg , Zexin Cai , Nicholas Andrews

As automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are vulnerable to spoofing attacks, they are typically used in conjunction with spoofing countermeasure (CM) systems to improve security. For example, the CM can first determine whether the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anssi Kanervisto , Ville Hautamäki , Tomi Kinnunen , Junichi Yamagishi

The task of making speaker verification systems robust to adverse scenarios remain a challenging and an active area of research. We developed an unsupervised feature enhancement approach in log-filter bank domain with the end goal of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Saurabh Kataria , Jesús Villalba , Paola García-Perera , Najim Dehak

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system is a type of bio-metric authentication. It can be attacked by an intruder, who falsifies data in order to get access to protected information. Countermeasures (CM) are special algorithms that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Petr Grinberg , Vladislav Shikhov