6 papers
Latent Secret Spin: Keyed Orthogonal Rotations for Blind Speech Watermarking in Anisotropic Latent Spaces
Emma Coletta, Massimiliano Todisco, Michele Panariello +2
We introduce Latent Secret Spin (LSS), a blind speech watermarking method based on geometric operations in codec latent space. Based upon orthogonal rotations to principal componen…
Evaluating voice anonymisation using similarity rank disclosure
Shilpa Chandra, Matteo Pettenò, Nicholas Evans +7
The evaluation of voice anonymisation remains challenging. Current practice relies on automatic speaker verification metrics such as the equal error rate (EER). Performance estimat…
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…