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Due to a constantly increasing amount of speech data that is stored in different types of databases, voice privacy has become a major concern. To respond to such concern, speech researchers have developed various methods for speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Lauri Tavi , Tomi Kinnunen , Rosa González Hautamäki

Given the speech generation framework that represents the speaker attribute with an embedding vector, asynchronous voice anonymization can be achieved by modifying the speaker embedding derived from the original speech. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhengpeng Zha , Zhenhua Ling

ASR systems often struggle with maintaining syntactic and semantic accuracy in long audio transcripts, impacting tasks like Named Entity Recognition (NER), capitalization, and punctuation. We propose a novel approach that enhances ASR by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Duygu Altinok

The widespread application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) supports large-scale voice surveillance, raising concerns about privacy among users. In this paper, we concentrate on using adversarial examples to mitigate unauthorized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Derui Wang , Yedi Zhang , Minhui Xue , Jie Hao , Jin Song Dong , Yixian Yang

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

Text sanitization aims to rewrite parts of a document to prevent disclosure of personal information. The central challenge of text sanitization is to strike a balance between privacy protection (avoiding the leakage of personal information)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ildikó Pilán , Benet Manzanares-Salor , David Sánchez , Pierre Lison

Using our voices to access, and interact with, online services raises concerns about the trade-offs between convenience, privacy, and security. The conflict between maintaining privacy and ensuring input authenticity has often been hindered…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

Speech models are often trained on sensitive data in order to improve model performance, leading to potential privacy leakage. Our work considers noise masking attacks, introduced by Amid et al. 2022, which attack automatic speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Matthew Jagielski , Om Thakkar , Lun Wang

Speech pseudonymization aims at altering a speech signal to map the identifiable personal characteristics of a given speaker to another identity. In other words, it aims to hide the source speaker identity while preserving the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

Speech synthesis, voice cloning, and voice conversion techniques present severe privacy and security threats to users of voice user interfaces (VUIs). These techniques transform one or more elements of a speech signal, e.g., identity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

Automatic detection of Parkinson's disease (PD) from speech is a promising non-invasive diagnostic tool, but it raises significant privacy concerns. Speaker anonymization mitigates these risks, but it may suppress the pathological…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Carlos Franzreb , Francisco Teixeira , Ben Luks , Sebastian Möller , Alberto Abad

This paper presents the NWPU-ASLP speaker anonymization system for VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge. Our submission does not involve additional Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) model or x-vector pool. Our system consists of four modules,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Li Zhang , Pengcheng Guo , Yuhao Liang , Lei Xie

Text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, generate highly realistic images from text descriptions. However, the generation of certain content at such high quality raises concerns. A prominent issue is the accurate depiction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Liang Shi , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan

LLM agents increasingly draft messages on behalf of users, yet users routinely overshare sensitive information and disagree on what counts as private. Existing systems support only suppression (omitting sensitive information) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yunze Xiao , Wenkai Li , Xiaoyuan Wu , Ningshan Ma , Yueqi Song , Weihao Xuan

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in text understanding and generation, and they are increasingly being utilized across various domains to enhance productivity. However, due to the high costs of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yu Mao , Xueping Liao , Wei Liu , Anjia Yang

Data containing personal information is increasingly used to train, fine-tune, or query Large Language Models (LLMs). Text is typically scrubbed of identifying information prior to use, often with tools such as Microsoft's Presidio or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nataša Krčo , Zexi Yao , Matthieu Meeus , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Our research uncovers a novel privacy risk associated with multimodal large language models (MLLMs): the ability to infer sensitive personal attributes from audio data -- a technique we term audio private attribute profiling. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Lixu Wang , Kaixiang Yao , Xinfeng Li , Dong Yang , Haoyang Li , Xiaofeng Wang , Wei Dong

This paper investigates adapting Audio Large Language Models (ALLMs) for speaker verification (SV). We reformulate SV as an audio question-answering task and conduct comprehensive zero-shot evaluations on public benchmarks, showing that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yiming Ren , Xuenan Xu , Baoxiang Li , Shuai Wang , Chao Zhang

Recently, speech assistant and speech verification have been used in many fields, which brings much benefit and convenience for us. However, when we enjoy these speech applications, our speech may be collected by attackers for speech…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuwen Pu , Zhou Feng , Chunyi Zhou , Jiahao Chen , Chunqiang Hu , Haibo Hu , Shouling Ji

The field of text privatization often leverages the notion of $\textit{Differential Privacy}$ (DP) to provide formal guarantees in the rewriting or obfuscation of sensitive textual data. A common and nearly ubiquitous form of DP application…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Stephen Meisenbacher , Maulik Chevli , Florian Matthes