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Integration of speech into healthcare has intensified privacy concerns due to its potential as a non-invasive biomarker containing individual biometric information. In response, speaker anonymization aims to conceal personally identifiable…

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

The early detection of suicide risk is important since it enables the intervention to prevent potential suicide attempts. This paper studies the automatic detection of suicide risk based on spontaneous speech from adolescents, and collects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ziyun Cui , Chang Lei , Wen Wu , Yinan Duan , Diyang Qu , Ji Wu , Runsen Chen , Chao Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the impact of speech temporal dynamics in application to automatic speaker verification and speaker voice anonymization tasks. We propose several metrics to perform automatic speaker verification based only on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Natalia Tomashenko , Emmanuel Vincent , Marc Tommasi

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

Collecting speech data is an important step in training speech recognition systems and other speech-based machine learning models. However, the issue of privacy protection is an increasing concern that must be addressed. The current study…

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 performance of a voice anonymization system is typically measured according to its ability to hide the speaker's identity and keep the data's utility for downstream tasks. This means that the requirements the anonymization should…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Sarina Meyer , Ngoc Thang Vu

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

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

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 VoicePrivacy Challenge promotes the development of voice anonymisation solutions for speech technology. In this paper we present a systematic overview and analysis of the second edition held in 2022. We describe the voice anonymisation…

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 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

Emotion plays a significant role in speech interaction, conveyed through tone, pitch, and rhythm, enabling the expression of feelings and intentions beyond words to create a more personalized experience. However, most existing speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Jixun Yao , Hexin Liu , Eng Siong Chng , Lei Xie

The 1st SpeechWellness Challenge (SW1) aims to advance methods for detecting current suicide risk in adolescents using speech analysis techniques. Suicide among adolescents is a critical public health issue globally. Early detection of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Wen Wu , Ziyun Cui , Chang Lei , Yinan Duan , Diyang Qu , Ji Wu , Bowen Zhou , Runsen Chen , Chao Zhang

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

With advances seen in deep learning, voice-based applications are burgeoning, ranging from personal assistants, affective computing, to remote disease diagnostics. As the voice contains both linguistic and para-linguistic information (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yi Zhu , Mohamed Imoussaïne-Aïkous , Carolyn Côté-Lussier , Tiago H. Falk

Social media has become a platform for people to stand up and raise their voices against social and criminal acts. Vocalization of such information has allowed the investigation and identification of criminals. However, revealing such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Supriti Vijay , Aman Priyanshu

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution designed to conceal the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and para-linguistic information of the original speech. While most prior studies focus…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Lei Xie