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With Internet users constantly leaving a trail of text, whether through blogs, emails, or social media posts, the ability to write and protest anonymously is being eroded because artificial intelligence, when given a sample of previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Rishi Balakrishnan , Stephen Sloan , Anil Aswani

Speaker anonymization seeks to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving the utility of their speech. The achieved privacy is commonly evaluated with a speaker recognition model trained on anonymized speech. Although this represents a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Carlos Franzreb , Arnab Das , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Möller

Current speaker anonymization methods, especially with self-supervised learning (SSL) models, require massive computational resources when hiding speaker identity. This paper proposes an effective and parameter-efficient speaker…

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

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

In this paper, we present AltVoice -- a system designed to help user's protect their privacy when using remotely accessed voice services. The system allows a user to conceal their true voice identity information with no cooperation from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Henry Turner , Giulio Lovisotto , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

Speech signals contain a lot of sensitive information, such as the speaker's identity, which raises privacy concerns when speech data get collected. Speaker anonymization aims to transform a speech signal to remove the source speaker's…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

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

Speech data carries a range of personal information, such as the speaker's identity and emotional state. These attributes can be used for malicious purposes. With the development of virtual assistants, a new generation of privacy threats…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Hubert Nourtel , Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher , Marie Tahon

Neural networks are commonly known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks mounted through subtle perturbation on the input data. Recent development in voice-privacy protection has shown the positive use cases of the same technique to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Chenyang Guo , Liping Chen , Zhuhai Li , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Wu Guo

The rapid progress in personalized speech generation technology, including personalized text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), poses a challenge in distinguishing between generated and real speech for human listeners, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Shihao Chen , Liping Chen , Jie Zhang , KongAik Lee , Zhenhua Ling , Lirong Dai

Speech synthesis technology has brought great convenience, while the widespread usage of realistic deepfake audio has triggered hazards. Malicious adversaries may unauthorizedly collect victims' speeches and clone a similar voice for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhisheng Zhang , Derui Wang , Qianyi Yang , Pengyang Huang , Junhan Pu , Yuxin Cao , Kai Ye , Jie Hao , Yixian Yang

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

The proliferation of speech technologies and rising privacy legislation calls for the development of privacy preservation solutions for speech applications. These are essential since speech signals convey a wealth of rich, personal and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Paul-Gauthier Noé , Jean-François Bonastre , Driss Matrouf , Natalia Tomashenko , Andreas Nautsch , Nicholas Evans

Currently, a common approach in many speech processing tasks is to leverage large scale pre-trained models by fine-tuning them on in-domain data for a particular application. Yet obtaining even a small amount of such data can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Samuele Cornell , Jordan Darefsky , Zhiyao Duan , Shinji Watanabe

Privacy concerns have attracted increasing attention in data-driven products due to the tendency of machine learning models to memorize sensitive training data. Generating synthetic versions of such data with a formal privacy guarantee,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Xiang Yue , Huseyin A. Inan , Xuechen Li , Girish Kumar , Julia McAnallen , Hoda Shajari , Huan Sun , David Levitan , Robert Sim

Voice anonymisation can be used to help protect speaker privacy when speech data is shared with untrusted others. In most practical applications, while the voice identity should be sanitised, other attributes such as the spoken content…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Michele Panariello , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

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

With the development of smart devices, such as the Amazon Echo and Apple's HomePod, speech data have become a new dimension of big data. However, privacy and security concerns may hinder the collection and sharing of real-world speech data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yaowei Han , Sheng Li , Yang Cao , Qiang Ma , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

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…

Text-to-speech models trained on large-scale datasets have demonstrated impressive in-context learning capabilities and naturalness. However, control of speaker identity and style in these models typically requires conditioning on reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Dan Lyth , Simon King