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most citedThe VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge: Results and findings

106 citations · 269 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

eess.AS2023★ 9 cited

New Challenges for Content Privacy in Speech and Audio

Jennifer Williams, Karla Pizzi, Shuvayanti Das +1

Privacy in speech and audio has many facets. A particularly under-developed area of privacy in this domain involves consideration for information related to content and context. Sp…

eess.AS2022★ 2 cited

Hiding speaker's sex in speech using zero-evidence speaker representation in an analysis/synthesis pipeline

Paul-Gauthier Noé, Xiaoxiao Miao, Xin Wang +3

The use of modern vocoders in an analysis/synthesis pipeline allows us to investigate high-quality voice conversion that can be used for privacy purposes. Here, we propose to trans…

cs.CL2022★ 26 cited

The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan

Natalia Tomashenko, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Xin Wang +8

The VoicePrivacy Challenge aims to promote the development of privacy preservation tools for speech technology by gathering a new community to define the tasks of interest and the…

eess.AS2021

Revisiting Speech Content Privacy

Jennifer Williams, Junichi Yamagishi, Paul-Gauthier Noe +2

In this paper, we discuss an important aspect of speech privacy: protecting spoken content. New capabilities from the field of machine learning provide a unique and timely opportun…

cs.CR2021

A bridge between features and evidence for binary attribute-driven perfect privacy

Paul-Gauthier Noé, Andreas Nautsch, Driss Matrouf +2

Attribute-driven privacy aims to conceal a single user's attribute, contrary to anonymisation that tries to hide the full identity of the user in some data. When the attribute to p…

cs.CL2021★ 106 cited

The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge: Results and findings

Natalia Tomashenko, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent +11

This paper presents the results and analyses stemming from the first VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge which focuses on developing anonymization solutions for speech technology. We provi…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

Benchmarking and challenges in security and privacy for voice biometrics

Jean-Francois Bonastre, Hector Delgado, Nicholas Evans +13

For many decades, research in speech technologies has focused upon improving reliability. With this now meeting user expectations for a range of diverse applications, speech techno…

eess.AS2020

Adversarial Disentanglement of Speaker Representation for Attribute-Driven Privacy Preservation

Paul-Gauthier Noé, Mohammad Mohammadamini, Driss Matrouf +3

In speech technologies, speaker's voice representation is used in many applications such as speech recognition, voice conversion, speech synthesis and, obviously, user authenticati…

eess.AS2020★ 1 cited

Speech Pseudonymisation Assessment Using Voice Similarity Matrices

Paul-Gauthier Noé, Jean-François Bonastre, Driss Matrouf +3

The proliferation of speech technologies and rising privacy legislation calls for the development of privacy preservation solutions for speech applications. These are essential sin…

cs.CR2020★ 23 cited

The Privacy ZEBRA: Zero Evidence Biometric Recognition Assessment

Andreas Nautsch, Jose Patino, Natalia Tomashenko +5

Mounting privacy legislation calls for the preservation of privacy in speech technology, though solutions are gravely lacking. While evaluation campaigns are long-proven tools to d…

cs.CL2020★ 100 cited

Introducing the VoicePrivacy Initiative

Natalia Tomashenko, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Xin Wang +8

The VoicePrivacy initiative aims to promote the development of privacy preservation tools for speech technology by gathering a new community to define the tasks of interest and the…

cs.SD2020

CGCNN: Complex Gabor Convolutional Neural Network on raw speech

Paul-Gauthier Noé, Titouan Parcollet, Mohamed Morchid

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to learn representations directly from the raw signal instead of hand-crafted acoustic feat…