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The trend of scaling up speech generation models poses a threat of biometric information leakage of the identities of the voices in the training data, raising privacy and security concerns. In this paper, we investigate training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Toda

The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is an ICASSP 2025 SP Grand Challenge which focuses on evaluating attacker systems against a set of voice anonymization systems submitted to the VoicePrivacy 2024 Challenge. Training, development,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Natalia Tomashenko , Xiaoxiao Miao , Emmanuel Vincent , Junichi Yamagishi

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…

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

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems utilize the biometric information in human speech to verify the speaker's identity. The techniques used for performing speaker verification are often vulnerable to malicious attacks that attempt…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yang Gao , Jiachen Lian , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

One of the most crucial components in the field of biometric security is the automatic speaker verification system, which is based on the speaker's voice. It is possible to utilise ASVs in isolation or in conjunction with other AI models.…

Automatic speech verification (ASV) is the technology to determine the identity of a person based on their voice. While being convenient for identity verification, we should aim for the highest system security standard given that it is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Shentong Mo , Haofan Wang , Pinxu Ren , Ta-Chung Chi

The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering most speech services, it also poses serious privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Pierre Champion

Smart devices serviced by large-scale AI models necessitates user data transfer to the cloud for inference. For speech applications, this means transferring private user information, e.g., speaker identity. Our paper proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Md Asif Jalal , Pablo Peso Parada , Jisi Zhang , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Mete Ozay , Myoungji Han , Jung In Lee , Seokyeong Jung

Now-a-days, speech-based biometric systems such as automatic speaker verification (ASV) are highly prone to spoofing attacks by an imposture. With recent development in various voice conversion (VC) and speech synthesis (SS) algorithms,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dipjyoti Paul , Monisankha Pal , Goutam Saha

The social media revolution has produced a plethora of web services to which users can easily upload and share multimedia documents. Despite the popularity and convenience of such services, the sharing of such inherently personal data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Fuming Fang , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans , Jean-Francois Bonastre

Speaker embeddings are ubiquitous, with applications ranging from speaker recognition and diarization to speech synthesis and voice anonymisation. The amount of information held by these embeddings lends them versatility, but also raises…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Francisco Teixeira , Alberto Abad , Bhiksha Raj , Isabel Trancoso

Privacy and security are major concerns when communicating speech signals to cloud services such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech emotion recognition (SER). Existing solutions for speech anonymization mainly focus on voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Minh Tran , Mohammad Soleymani

The fast increase of web services and mobile apps, which collect personal data from users, increases the risk that their privacy may be severely compromised. In particular, the increasing variety of spoken language interfaces and voice…

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

Growing interest in automatic speaker verification (ASV)systems has lead to significant quality improvement of spoofing attackson them. Many research works confirm that despite the low equal er-ror rate (EER) ASV systems are still…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Galina Lavrentyeva , Sergey Novoselov , Konstantin Simonchik

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key technology in many services and applications. This typically requires user devices to send their speech data to the cloud for ASR decoding. As the speech signal carries a lot of information about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Emmanuel Vincent

The temporal dynamics of speech, encompassing variations in rhythm, intonation, and speaking rate, contain important and unique information about speaker identity. This paper proposes a new method for representing speaker characteristics by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Natalia Tomashenko , Emmanuel Vincent , Marc Tommasi

Sharing real-world speech utterances is key to the training and deployment of voice-based services. However, it also raises privacy risks as speech contains a wealth of personal data. Speaker anonymization aims to remove speaker information…