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In the era of big data, remarkable advancements have been achieved in personalized speech generation techniques that utilize speaker attributes, including voice and speaking style, to generate deepfake speech. This has also amplified global…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling , Xin Wang , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomoki Toda , Haizhou Li

To enable process analysis based on an event log without compromising the privacy of individuals involved in process execution, a log may be anonymized. Such anonymization strives to transform a log so that it satisfies provable privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Fabian Rösel , Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen , Han van der Aa , Matthias Weidlich

Speech anonymization and de-identification have garnered significant attention recently, especially in the healthcare area including telehealth consultations, patient voiceprint matching, and patient real-time monitoring. Speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ming Cheng , Xingjian Diao , Shitong Cheng , Wenjun Liu

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

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

Speaker recognition is a widely used voice-based biometric technology with applications in various industries, including banking, education, recruitment, immigration, law enforcement, healthcare, and well-being. However, while dataset…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Casandra Rusti , Anna Leschanowsky , Carolyn Quinlan , Michaela Pnacek , Lauriane Gorce , Wiebke Hutiri

Anonymization is the process of removing or hiding sensitive information in logs. Anonymization allows organizations to share network logs while not exposing sensitive information. However, there is an inherent trade off between the amount…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-06-28 Kiran Lakkaraju , Adam Slagell

Voice Cloning has rapidly advanced in today's digital world, with many researchers and corporations working to improve these algorithms for various applications. This article aims to establish a standardized terminology for voice cloning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hussam Azzuni , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Speech recordings are being more frequently used to detect and monitor disease, leading to privacy concerns. Beyond cryptography, protection of speech can be addressed by approaches, such as perturbation, disentanglement, and re-synthesis,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Mehtab Ur Rahman , Martha Larson , Louis ten Bosch , Cristian Tejedor-García

In contemporary society, voice-controlled devices, such as smartphones and home assistants, have become pervasive due to their advanced capabilities and functionality. The always-on nature of their microphones offers users the convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuchen Liu , Apu Kapadia , Donald Williamson

Most recent speech privacy efforts have focused on anonymizing acoustic speaker attributes but there has not been as much research into protecting information from speech content. We introduce a toy problem that explores an emerging type of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Jennifer Williams , Karla Pizzi , Paul-Gauthier Noe , Sneha Das

Speech foundation models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in speech-related tasks. Nevertheless, these models often struggle with non-verbal audio data, such as vocalizations, baby crying, etc., which are critical for various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Alkis Koudounas , Moreno La Quatra , Marco Sabato Siniscalchi , Elena Baralis

In order to protect the privacy of speech data, speaker anonymization aims for hiding the identity of a speaker by changing the voice in speech recordings. This typically comes with a privacy-utility trade-off between protection of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sarina Meyer , Pascal Tilli , Pavel Denisov , Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

As users increasingly rely on cloud-based computing services, it is important to ensure that uploaded speech data remains private. Existing solutions rely either on server-side methods or focus on hiding speaker identity. While these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Peter Wu , Paul Pu Liang , Jiatong Shi , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Shinji Watanabe , Louis-Philippe Morency

The goal of this contribution is to use a parametric speech synthesis system for reducing background noise and other interferences from recorded speech signals. In a first step, Hidden Markov Models of the synthesis system are trained. Two…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Daniel Dzibela , Armin Sehr

Mature push button tools have emerged for checking trace properties (e.g. secrecy or authentication) of security protocols. The case of indistinguishability-based privacy properties (e.g. ballot privacy or anonymity) is more complex and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Véronique Cortier , Niklas Grimm , Joseph Lallemand , Matteo Maffei

Voice-controlled smart speaker devices have gained a foothold in many modern households. Their prevalence combined with their intrusion into core private spheres of life has motivated research on security and privacy intrusions, especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Maliheh Shirvanian , Sebastian Meiser

Voice Service Providers (VSPs) participating in VoIP peering frequently want to withhold their identity and related privacy-sensitive information from other parties during the VoIP communication. A number of existing documents on VoIP…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-07-09 Charles Shen , Henning Schulzrinne

The secure transmission of speech information is a significant issue faced by many security professionals and individuals. By applying voice-encryption technique any kind of encrypted sensitive speech data such as password can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Rupa Patel , Urmila Shrawankar

As the use of biometrics becomes more wide-spread, the privacy concerns that stem from the use of biometrics are becoming more apparent. As the usage of mobile devices grows, so does the desire to implement biometric identification into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-12 R. C. Johnson , Walter J. Scheirer , Terrance E. Boult