Mohamed Maouche – Recent Approaches of Speaker Anonymization Techniques

An increasing number of smart devices embed speech-commands. The usage of speech offers simplicity, accessibility and it also opens new human-computer interactions. However, the gathering and exploitation of this type of data raise many privacy threats as speech data is sensitive in nature. Personal information about the speaker can be inferred (e.g., gender, emotion…). In addition, speech is a biometric characteristic, it can be used to identify speakers. To address this issue anonymization techniques have been proposed.

In this talk, we are going to present the recent approaches for speech anonymization techniques with a focus on x-vector based techniques. The evaluation is presented with various scenarios against attackers.

https://webconference.unicaen.fr/b/mor-7jm-rcy