5 papers
Combining Self-Embedding Audio Watermarking with Ultra-Low-Bitrate Neural Codecs
Yigitcan Özer, Xin Wang, Zhe Zhang +1
Partial manipulation of speech recordings, where only localized segments of an utterance are altered, poses a significant challenge for content integrity verification, as reliable…
A Training-Free Proactive Defense Against Partial Speech Manipulation via Self-Embedding Steganography
Yigitcan Özer, Zhe Zhang, Wanying Ge +2
Partial deepfake speech, where only limited segments of an utterance are synthesized or manipulated, poses a significant challenge to existing deepfake detection systems. As the pr…
Self Voice Conversion as an Attack against Neural Audio Watermarking
Yigitcan Özer, Wanying Ge, Zhe Zhang +2
Audio watermarking embeds auxiliary information into speech while maintaining speaker identity, linguistic content, and perceptual quality. Although recent advances in neural and d…
MIDI-VALLE: Improving Expressive Piano Performance Synthesis Through Neural Codec Language Modelling
Jingjing Tang, Xin Wang, Zhe Zhang +3
Generating expressive audio performances from music scores requires models to capture both instrument acoustics and human interpretation. Traditional music performance synthesis pi…
Mitigating Language Mismatch in SSL-Based Speaker Anonymization
Zhe Zhang, Wen-Chin Huang, Xin Wang +2
Speaker anonymization aims to protect speaker identity while preserving content information and the intelligibility of speech. However, most speaker anonymization systems (SASs) ar…