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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

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

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

This paper presents SpecWav-Attack, an adversarial model for detecting speakers in anonymized speech. It leverages Wav2Vec2 for feature extraction and incorporates spectrogram resizing and incremental training for improved performance.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yuqi Li , Yuanzhong Zheng , Zhongtian Guo , Yaoxuan Wang , Jianjun Yin , Haojun Fei

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

This study focuses on the First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge within the ICASSP 2025 Signal Processing Grand Challenge, which aims to develop speaker verification systems capable of determining whether two anonymized speech signals are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Yanzhe Zhang , Zhonghao Bi , Feiyang Xiao , Xuefeng Yang , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jian Guan

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

Voice authentication systems remain susceptible to two major threats: backdoor triggered attacks and targeted data poisoning attacks. This dual vulnerability is critical because conventional solutions typically address each threat type…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Alireza Mohammadi , Keshav Sood , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Asef Nazari

Speaker anonymization systems hide the identity of speakers while preserving other information such as linguistic content and emotions. To evaluate their privacy benefits, attacks in the form of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Anna Leschanowsky , Ahmad Aloradi , Prachi Singh , Daniel Tenbrinck , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Nils Peters

Speaker anonymization aims to suppress speaker individuality to protect privacy in speech while preserving the other aspects, such as speech content. One effective solution for anonymization is to modify the McAdams coefficient. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Candy Olivia Mawalim , Masashi Unoki

Voice data generated on instant messaging or social media applications contains unique user voiceprints that may be abused by malicious adversaries for identity inference or identity theft. Existing voice anonymization techniques, e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiangyi Deng , Fei Teng , Yanjiao Chen , Xiaofu Chen , Zhaohui Wang , Wenyuan Xu

Speech data conveys sensitive speaker attributes like identity or accent. With a small amount of found data, such attributes can be inferred and exploited for malicious purposes: voice cloning, spoofing, etc. Anonymization aims to make the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava , Nathalie Vauquier , Md Sahidullah , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Emmanuel Vincent

Voice anonymization aims to conceal speaker identity and attributes while preserving intelligibility, but current evaluations rely almost exclusively on Equal Error Rate (EER) that obscures whether adversaries can mount high-precision…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Efthymios Tsaprazlis , Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Tiantian Feng , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that aims to conceal the speaker's identity while preserving the naturalness and distinctiveness of the original speech. Mainstream approaches use an utterance-level vector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Lei Xie

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

Privacy-preserving voice protection approaches primarily suppress privacy-related information derived from paralinguistic attributes while preserving the linguistic content. Existing solutions focus particularly on single-speaker scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaoxiao Miao , Ruijie Tao , Chang Zeng , Xin Wang

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

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

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
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