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Substantial improvements have been achieved in recent years in voice conversion, which converts the speaker characteristics of an utterance into those of another speaker without changing the linguistic content of the utterance. Nonetheless,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Chien-yu Huang , Yist Y. Lin , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

The vast majority of approaches to speaker anonymization involve the extraction of fundamental frequency estimates, linguistic features and a speaker embedding which is perturbed to obfuscate the speaker identity before an anonymized speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Michele Panariello , Francesco Nespoli , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

Artificially generated speech is increasingly embedded in everyday life. Voice cloning in particular enables applications where identity preservation is important, such as completing a recording, dubbing in a new language, or preserving the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaitlyn Zhou , Federico Bianchi , Martijn Bartelds , Anna Pot , Yongchan Kwon , James Zou

Voice conversion (VC), as a voice style transfer technology, is becoming increasingly prevalent while raising serious concerns about its illegal use. Proactively tracing the origins of VC-generated speeches, i.e., speaker traceability, can…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yanzhen Ren , Hongcheng Zhu , Liming Zhai , Zongkun Sun , Rubing Shen , Lina Wang

To improve speaker verification in real scenarios with interference speakers, noise, and reverberation, we propose to bring together advancements made in multi-channel speech features. Specifically, we combine spectral, spatial, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Saurabh Kataria , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Voice conversion for speaker anonymization is an emerging concept for privacy protection. In a deep learning setting, this is achieved by extracting multiple features from speech, altering the speaker identity, and waveform synthesis.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a Cycle-GAN based voice converter (VC) on four speaker identification (SID) systems and an automated speech recognition (ASR) system for various purposes. Audio samples converted by the VC model are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Gokce Keskin , Tyler Lee , Cory Stephenson , Oguz H. Elibol

Given the speech generation framework that represents the speaker attribute with an embedding vector, asynchronous voice anonymization can be achieved by modifying the speaker embedding derived from the original speech. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhengpeng Zha , Zhenhua Ling

Perceived voice likability plays a crucial role in various social interactions, such as partner selection and advertising. A system that provides reference likable voice samples tailored to target audiences would enable users to adjust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Hitoshi Suda , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Satoru Fukayama

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems in practice are greatly vulnerable to spoofing attacks. The latest voice conversion technologies are able to produce perceptually natural sounding speech that mimics any target speakers. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Xiaohai Tian , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

The goal of voice anonymization is to modify an audio such that the true identity of its speaker is hidden. Research on this task is typically limited to the same English read speech datasets, thus the efficacy of current methods for other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Sarina Meyer , Ekaterina Kolos , Ngoc Thang Vu

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

We present a Cycle-GAN based many-to-many voice conversion method that can convert between speakers that are not in the training set. This property is enabled through speaker embeddings generated by a neural network that is jointly trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-08 Gokce Keskin , Tyler Lee , Cory Stephenson , Oguz H. Elibol

Voice conversion (VC) refers to transforming the speaker characteristics of an utterance without altering its linguistic contents. Many works on voice conversion require to have parallel training data that is highly expensive to acquire.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shindong Lee , BongGu Ko , Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook

Synthetic-voice cloning technologies have seen significant advances in recent years, giving rise to a range of potential harms. From small- and large-scale financial fraud to disinformation campaigns, the need for reliable methods to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Sarah Barrington , Romit Barua , Gautham Koorma , Hany Farid

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transfer the voice of a source speaker to that of a speaker unseen during training, while preserving the content information. Although various methods have been proposed to reconstruct speaker information…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Anastasia Avdeeva , Aleksei Gusev

Voice conversion (VC) techniques aim to modify speaker identity of an utterance while preserving the underlying linguistic information. Most VC approaches ignore modeling of the speaking style (e.g. emotion and emphasis), which may contain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Shiyin Kang , Na Hu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Automatic speaker verification systems are increasingly used as the primary means to authenticate costumers. Recently, it has been proposed to train speaker verification systems using end-to-end deep neural models. In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Felix Kreuk , Yossi Adi , Moustapha Cisse , Joseph Keshet

In speaker anonymization, speech recordings are modified in a way that the identity of the speaker remains hidden. While this technology could help to protect the privacy of individuals around the globe, current research restricts this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sarina Meyer , Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

Thanks to the growing availability of spoofing databases and rapid advances in using them, systems for detecting voice spoofing attacks are becoming more and more capable, and error rates close to zero are being reached for the ASVspoof2015…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-05 Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Fuming Fang , Xin Wang , Isao Echizen , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomi Kinnunen