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Speaker anonymization aims to conceal cues to speaker identity while preserving linguistic content. Current machine learning based approaches require substantial computational resources, hindering real-time streaming applications. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Waris Quamer , Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

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

Protecting speaker identity is crucial for online voice applications, yet streaming speaker anonymization (SA) remains underexplored. Recent research has demonstrated that neural audio codec (NAC) provides superior speaker feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Nikita Kuzmin , Songting Liu , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

We present StreamVC, a streaming voice conversion solution that preserves the content and prosody of any source speech while matching the voice timbre from any target speech. Unlike previous approaches, StreamVC produces the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yang Yang , Yury Kartynnik , Yunpeng Li , Jiuqiang Tang , Xing Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity without degrading speech quality and intelligibility. Most speaker anonymization systems disentangle the speaker representation from the original speech and achieve anonymization by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yuanjun Lv , Jixun Yao , Peikun Chen , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

Speaker anonymization aims to protect the privacy of speakers while preserving spoken linguistic information from speech. Current mainstream neural network speaker anonymization systems are complicated, containing an F0 extractor, speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Natalia Tomashenko

We address the challenge of preserving emotional content in streaming speaker anonymization (SA). Neural audio codec language models trained for audio continuation tend to degrade source emotion: content tokens discard emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Nikita Kuzmin , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

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

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

Voice anonymization has been developed as a technique for preserving privacy by replacing the speaker's voice in a speech signal with that of a pseudo-speaker, thereby obscuring the original voice attributes from machine recognition and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong AiK Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling

In recent years, the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks have brought tremendous convenience. However, the training process of a highly effective model necessitates a substantial quantity of samples, which brings huge potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhisheng Zhang , Pengyang Huang

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

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

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

Anonymisation has the goal of manipulating speech signals in order to degrade the reliability of automatic approaches to speaker recognition, while preserving other aspects of speech, such as those relating to intelligibility and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-02 Jose Patino , Natalia Tomashenko , Massimiliano Todisco , Andreas Nautsch , Nicholas Evans

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 latency bottleneck of traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems fundamentally hinders the potential of streaming large language models (LLMs) in conversational AI. These TTS systems, typically trained and inferenced on complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Richard He Bai , Zijin Gu , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Navdeep Jaitly

Token-based language modeling is a prominent approach for speech generation, where tokens are obtained by quantizing features from self-supervised learning (SSL) models and extracting codes from neural speech codecs, generally referred to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Yang Yang , Yunpeng Li , George Sung , Shao-Fu Shih , Craig Dooley , Alessio Centazzo , Ramanan Rajeswaran

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving content information in speech. Current mainstream neural-network speaker anonymization systems disentangle speech into prosody-related, content, and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Natalia Tomashenko

The rapid advancement of generative AI has made it increasingly challenging to distinguish between deepfake audio and authentic human speech. To overcome the limitations of passive detection methods, we propose StreamMark, a novel deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Zhentao Liu , Milos Cernak
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