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Model inversion (MI) attacks allow to reconstruct average per-class representations of a machine learning (ML) model's training data. It has been shown that in scenarios where each class corresponds to a different individual, such as face…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Karla Pizzi , Franziska Boenisch , Ugur Sahin , Konstantin Böttinger

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

Preserving privacy of continuous and/or high-dimensional data such as images, videos and audios, can be challenging with syntactic anonymization methods which are designed for discrete attributes. Differential privacy, which provides a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Jihun Hamm

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal speaker-specific attributes in speech signals, making the anonymized speech unlinkable to the original speaker identity. Recent approaches achieve this by disentangling speech into content and speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Kong Aik Lee , Zeyan Liu , Liping Chen , Zhenhua Ling

Voice conversion for speaker anonymization is an emerging field in speech processing research. Many state-of-the-art approaches are based on the resynthesis of the phoneme posteriorgrams (PPG), the fundamental frequency (F0) of the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

In an age of voice-enabled technology, voice anonymization offers a solution to protect people's privacy, provided these systems work equally well across subgroups. This study investigates bias in voice anonymization systems within the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Anna Leschanowsky , Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

Anonymization of voice seeks to conceal the identity of the speaker while maintaining the utility of speech data. However, residual speaker cues often persist, which pose privacy risks. We propose SegReConcat, a data augmentation method for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ridwan Arefeen , Xiaoxiao Miao , Rong Tong , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See

Information on speaker characteristics can be useful as side information in improving speaker recognition accuracy. However, such information is often private. This paper investigates how privacy-preserving learning can improve a speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Filip Granqvist , Matt Seigel , Rogier van Dalen , Áine Cahill , Stephen Shum , Matthias Paulik

Recent privacy research on large language models (LLMs) has shown that they achieve near-human-level performance at inferring personal data from online texts. With ever-increasing model capabilities, existing text anonymization methods are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Robin Staab , Mark Vero , Mislav Balunović , Martin Vechev

Voice anonymization protects speaker privacy by concealing identity while preserving linguistic and paralinguistic content. Self-supervised learning (SSL) representations encode linguistic features but preserve speaker traits. We propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Beilong Tang , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Ming Li

The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. An important class of attack on anonymized data is attribute inference, where an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Paul Francis , David Wagner

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

Speaker recognition is a popular topic in biometric authentication and many deep learning approaches have achieved extraordinary performances. However, it has been shown in both image and speech applications that deep neural networks are…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Voice anonymisation aims to conceal the voice identity of speakers in speech recordings. Privacy protection is usually estimated from the difficulty of using a speaker verification system to re-identify the speaker post-anonymisation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Michele Panariello , Sarina Meyer , Pierre Champion , Xiaoxiao Miao , Massimiliano Todisco , Ngoc Thang Vu , Nicholas Evans

In speech technologies, speaker's voice representation is used in many applications such as speech recognition, voice conversion, speech synthesis and, obviously, user authentication. Modern vocal representations of the speaker are based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Paul-Gauthier Noé , Mohammad Mohammadamini , Driss Matrouf , Titouan Parcollet , Andreas Nautsch , Jean-François Bonastre

Voice anonymization masks vocal traits while preserving linguistic content, which may still leak speaker-specific patterns. To assess and strengthen privacy evaluation, we propose a dual-stream attacker that fuses spectral and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ridwan Arefeen , Xiaoxiao Miao , Rong Tong , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See , Timothy Liu

Statistical methods protecting sensitive information or the identity of the data owner have become critical to ensure privacy of individuals as well as of organizations. This paper investigates anonymization methods based on representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Clément Feutry , Pablo Piantanida , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre Duhamel

Speech data on the Internet are proliferating exponentially because of the emergence of social media, and the sharing of such personal data raises obvious security and privacy concerns. One solution to mitigate these concerns involves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Yi Lei , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie , Namin Wang , Jie Liu

Differentially private training algorithms provide protection against one of the most popular attacks in machine learning: the membership inference attack. However, these privacy algorithms incur a loss of the model's classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jiaxiang Liu , Simon Oya , Florian Kerschbaum