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13 papers
Evaluation of Audio Language Models for Fairness, Safety, and Security
Ranya Aloufi, Srishti Gupta, Soumya Shaw +2
Audio large language models (ALLMs) have recently advanced spoken interaction by integrating speech processing with large language models. However, existing evaluations of fairness…
ClaritySpeech: Dementia Obfuscation in Speech
Dominika Woszczyk, Ranya Aloufi, Soteris Demetriou
Dementia, a neurodegenerative disease, alters speech patterns, creating communication barriers and raising privacy concerns. Current speech technologies, such as automatic speech t…
Prosody-Driven Privacy-Preserving Dementia Detection
Dominika Woszczyk, Ranya Aloufi, Soteris Demetriou
Speaker embeddings extracted from voice recordings have been proven valuable for dementia detection. However, by their nature, these embeddings contain identifiable information whi…
Low-Energy On-Device Personalization for MCUs
Yushan Huang, Ranya Aloufi, Xavier Cadet +3
Microcontroller Units (MCUs) are ideal platforms for edge applications due to their low cost and energy consumption, and are widely used in various applications, including personal…
Evaluating The Robustness of Self-Supervised Representations to Background/Foreground Removal
Xavier F. Cadet, Ranya Aloufi, Alain Miranville +2
Despite impressive empirical advances of SSL in solving various tasks, the problem of understanding and characterizing SSL representations learned from input data remains relativel…
A study on the impact of Self-Supervised Learning on automatic dysarthric speech assessment
Xavier F. Cadet, Ranya Aloufi, Sara Ahmadi-Abhari +1
Automating dysarthria assessments offers the opportunity to develop practical, low-cost tools that address the current limitations of manual and subjective assessments. Nonetheless…
On-Device Voice Authentication with Paralinguistic Privacy
Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle
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 pri…
A Tandem Framework Balancing Privacy and Security for Voice User Interfaces
Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle
Speech synthesis, voice cloning, and voice conversion techniques present severe privacy and security threats to users of voice user interfaces (VUIs). These techniques transform on…
Configurable Privacy-Preserving Automatic Speech Recognition
Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle
Voice assistive technologies have given rise to far-reaching privacy and security concerns. In this paper we investigate whether modular automatic speech recognition (ASR) can impr…
Paralinguistic Privacy Protection at the Edge
Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle
Voice user interfaces and digital assistants are rapidly entering our lives and becoming singular touch points spanning our devices. These always-on services capture and transmit o…
Privacy-preserving Voice Analysis via Disentangled Representations
Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle
Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are increasingly popular and built into smartphones, home assistants, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Despite offering an always-on convenient us…
Emotion Filtering at the Edge
Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle
Voice controlled devices and services have become very popular in the consumer IoT. Cloud-based speech analysis services extract information from voice inputs using speech recognit…
Emotionless: Privacy-Preserving Speech Analysis for Voice Assistants
Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle
Voice-enabled interactions provide more human-like experiences in many popular IoT systems. Cloud-based speech analysis services extract useful information from voice input using s…