4 papers
The Third VoicePrivacy Challenge: Preserving Emotional Expressiveness and Linguistic Content in Voice Anonymization
Natalia Tomashenko, Xiaoxiao Miao, Pierre Champion +7
We present results and analyses from the third VoicePrivacy Challenge held in 2024, which focuses on advancing voice anonymization technologies. The task was to develop a voice ano…
MDD: a Mask Diffusion Detector to Protect Speaker Verification Systems from Adversarial Perturbations
Yibo Bai, Sizhou Chen, Michele Panariello +3
Speaker verification systems are increasingly deployed in security-sensitive applications but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. In this work, we propose the Ma…
Reference-free Adversarial Sex Obfuscation in Speech
Yangyang Qu, Michele Panariello, Massimiliano Todisco +1
Sex conversion in speech involves privacy risks from data collection and often leaves residual sex-specific cues in outputs, even when target speaker references are unavailable. We…
The Risks and Detection of Overestimated Privacy Protection in Voice Anonymisation
Michele Panariello, Sarina Meyer, Pierre Champion +4
Voice anonymisation aims to conceal the voice identity of speakers in speech recordings. Privacy protection is usually estimated from the difficulty of using a speaker verification…