6 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…
Target speaker anonymization in multi-speaker recordings
Natalia Tomashenko, Junichi Yamagishi, Xin Wang +2
Most of the existing speaker anonymization research has focused on single-speaker audio, leading to the development of techniques and evaluation metrics optimized for such conditio…
Exploiting Context-dependent Duration Features for Voice Anonymization Attack Systems
Natalia Tomashenko, Emmanuel Vincent, Marc Tommasi
The temporal dynamics of speech, encompassing variations in rhythm, intonation, and speaking rate, contain important and unique information about speaker identity. This paper propo…
Adapting General Disentanglement-Based Speaker Anonymization for Enhanced Emotion Preservation
Xiaoxiao Miao, Yuxiang Zhang, Xin Wang +3
A general disentanglement-based speaker anonymization system typically separates speech into content, speaker, and prosody features using individual encoders. This paper explores h…
The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge
Natalia Tomashenko, Xiaoxiao Miao, Emmanuel Vincent +1
The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is an ICASSP 2025 SP Grand Challenge which focuses on evaluating attacker systems against a set of voice anonymization systems submitted t…
Analysis of Speech Temporal Dynamics in the Context of Speaker Verification and Voice Anonymization
Natalia Tomashenko, Emmanuel Vincent, Marc Tommasi
In this paper, we investigate the impact of speech temporal dynamics in application to automatic speaker verification and speaker voice anonymization tasks. We propose several metr…