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Speaker attribute perturbation offers a feasible approach to asynchronous voice anonymization by employing adversarially perturbed speech as anonymized output. In order to enhance the identity unlinkability among anonymized utterances from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Liping Chen , Chenyang Guo , Rui Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Zhenhua Ling

In recent years, synthetic speech generated by advanced text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) systems has caused great harms to automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems, urging us to design a synthetic speech detection system…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Youxuan Ma , Zongze Ren , Shugong Xu

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

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

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…

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

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is one of the core technologies in biometric identification. With the ubiquitous usage of ASV systems in safety-critical applications, more and more malicious attackers attempt to launch adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Haibin Wu , Xu Li , Andy T. Liu , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

We consider technology-assisted mimicry attacks in the context of automatic speaker verification (ASV). We use ASV itself to select targeted speakers to be attacked by human-based mimicry. We recorded 6 naive mimics for whom we select…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Tomi Kinnunen , Rosa González Hautamäki , Ville Vestman , Md Sahidullah

In this paper, we present our comprehensive study aimed at enhancing the generalization capabilities of audio deepfake detection models. We investigate the performance of various pre-trained backbones, including Wav2Vec2, WavLM, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Jose A. Lopez , Georg Stemmer , Héctor Cordourier Maruri

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

We employ a combination of recent developments in semi-supervised learning for automatic speech recognition to obtain state-of-the-art results on LibriSpeech utilizing the unlabeled audio of the Libri-Light dataset. More precisely, we carry…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Yu Zhang , James Qin , Daniel S. Park , Wei Han , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le , Yonghui Wu

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

Preserving a patient's identity is a challenge for automatic, speech-based diagnosis of mental health disorders. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing adversarial disentanglement of depression characteristics and speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Vijay Ravi , Jinhan Wang , Jonathan Flint , Abeer Alwan

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

For new participants - Executive summary: (1) The task is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker's voice identity while protecting linguistic content, paralinguistic attributes, intelligibility…

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

Automatic speech quality assessment has raised more attention as an alternative or support to traditional perceptual clinical evaluation. However, most research so far only gains good results on simple tasks such as binary classification,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Tuan Nguyen , Corinne Fredouille , Alain Ghio , Mathieu Balaguer , Virginie Woisard

The current privacy evaluation for speaker anonymization often overestimates privacy when a same-gender target selection algorithm (TSA) is used, although this TSA leaks the speaker's gender and should hence be more vulnerable. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Carlos Franzreb , Arnab Das , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Möller

We address performance fairness for speaker verification using the adversarial reweighting (ARW) method. ARW is reformulated for speaker verification with metric learning, and shown to improve results across different subgroups of gender…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Minho Jin , Chelsea J. -T. Ju , Zeya Chen , Yi-Chieh Liu , Jasha Droppo , Andreas Stolcke

Explaining the decisions made by audio spoofing detection models is crucial for fostering trust in detection outcomes. However, current research on the interpretability of detection models is limited to applying XAI tools to post-trained…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Menglu Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang