On the Impact of Voice Anonymization on Speech Diagnostic Applications: a Case Study on COVID-19 Detection

Y Zhu, M Imoussaïne-Aïkous… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With advances seen in deep learning, voice-based applications are burgeoning, ranging
from personal assistants, affective computing, to remote disease diagnostics. As the voice …

On the impact of voice anonymization on speech-based COVID-19 detection

Y Zhu, M Imoussaïne-Aïkous, C Côté-Lussier… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
With advances seen in deep learning, voice-based applications are burgeoning, ranging
from personal assistants, affective computing, to remote disease diagnostics. As the voice …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating biases in COVID-19 diagnostic systems processed with automated speech anonymization algorithms

Y Zhu, M Imoussaıne-Aıkous… - 3rd Symposium on …, 2023 - isca-archive.org
Automated voice anonymization algorithms are used to obfuscate speaker identity while
leaving other vocal attributes untouched; they have been used for eg, speech recognition …

Voice Anonymization for All-Bias Evaluation of the Voice Privacy Challenge Baseline Systems

A Leschanowsky, ÜE Gaznepoglu… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Lightweight voice anonymization based on data-driven optimization of cascaded voice modification modules

H Kai, S Takamichi, S Shiota… - 2021 IEEE Spoken …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a voice anonymization framework based on data-driven
optimization of cascaded voice modification modules. With increasing opportunities to use …

Voicepm: A robust privacy measurement on voice anonymity

S Zhang, Z Li, A Das - Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Voice-based human-computer interaction has become pervasive in laptops, smartphones,
home voice assistants, and Internet of Thing (IoT) devices. However, voice interaction comes …

VoicePAT: An Efficient Open-Source Evaluation Toolkit for Voice Privacy Research

S Meyer, X Miao, NT Vu - IEEE Open Journal of Signal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Anonymizing speech: Evaluating and designing speaker anonymization techniques

P Champion - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04455, 2023 - arxiv.org
The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of
speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering …

The Impact of Speech Anonymization on Pathology and Its Limits

ST Arasteh, T Arias-Vergara, PA Pérez-Toro… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …

Evaluation of speaker anonymization on emotional speech

H Nourtel, P Champion, D Jouvet, A Larcher… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …