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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

Speaker anonymization is the task of modifying a speech recording such that the original speaker cannot be identified anymore. Since the first Voice Privacy Challenge in 2020, along with the release of a framework, the popularity of this…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Sarina Meyer , Xiaoxiao Miao , Ngoc Thang Vu

Audio packet loss concealment is the hiding of gaps in VoIP audio streams caused by network packet loss. With the ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Grand Challenge, we build on the success of the previous Audio PLC Challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lorenz Diener , Solomiya Branets , Ando Saabas , Ross Cutler

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that conceals the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and paralinguistic information of the original speech. To establish a fair benchmark and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Jixun Yao , Nikita Kuzmin , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Dake Guo , Kong Aik Lee , Eng-Siong Chng , Lei Xie

For many decades, research in speech technologies has focused upon improving reliability. With this now meeting user expectations for a range of diverse applications, speech technology is today omni-present. As result, a focus on security…

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

Speaker adaptation systems face privacy concerns, for such systems are trained on private datasets and often overfitting. This paper demonstrates that an attacker can extract speaker information by querying speaker-adapted speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Xiaojiao Chen , Sheng Li , Jiyi Li , Hao Huang , Yang Cao , Liang He

The first spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge aims to integrate research efforts in speaker verification and anti-spoofing. We extend the speaker verification scenario by introducing spoofed trials to the usual set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Jee-weon Jung , Hemlata Tak , Hye-jin Shim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Soo-Whan Chung , Ha-Jin Yu , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen

The ICASSP 2023 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and is still a top issue in audio communication. This is the fourth…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Marju Purin , Evgenii Indenbom , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Jegor Gužvin , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Robert Aichner

Voice anonymization aims to conceal speaker identity and attributes while preserving intelligibility, but current evaluations rely almost exclusively on Equal Error Rate (EER) that obscures whether adversaries can mount high-precision…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Efthymios Tsaprazlis , Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Tiantian Feng , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Shrikanth Narayanan

In this paper, we present a Distribution-Preserving Voice Anonymization technique, as our submission to the VoicePrivacy Challenge 2020. We observe that the challenge baseline system generates fake X-vectors which are very similar to each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Henry Turner , Giulio Lovisotto , Ivan Martinovic

How secure automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology is? More concretely, given a specific target speaker, how likely is it to find another person who gets falsely accepted as that target? This question may be addressed empirically by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Alexey Sholokhov , Tomi Kinnunen , Ville Vestman , Kong Aik Lee

Voice anonymization systems aim to protect speaker privacy by obscuring vocal traits while preserving the linguistic content relevant for downstream applications. However, because these linguistic cues remain intact, they can be exploited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ahmad Aloradi , Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Daniel Tenbrinck

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

The 2020 Personalized Voice Trigger Challenge (PVTC2020) addresses two different research problems a unified setup: joint wake-up word detection with speaker verification on close-talking single microphone data and far-field multi-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Yan Jia , Xingming Wang , Xiaoyi Qin , Yinping Zhang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

The ICASSP 2024 Speech Signal Improvement Grand Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of improving the speech signal quality in communication systems. This marks our second challenge, building upon the success from the…

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

The ICASSP 2022 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication. This is the third AEC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Marju Purin , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Karsten Sørensen , Robert Aichner

Voice assistant applications have become omniscient nowadays. Two models that provide the two most important functions for real-life applications (i.e., Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Siri, etc.) are Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jingjin Li , Chao chen , Lei Pan , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Hossein Ghodosi , Jun Zhang

While the last decade has witnessed significant advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, performance of these systems for individuals with speech disabilities remains inadequate, partly due to limited public training…