1 code implementation • 14 May 2022 • Natalia Tomashenko, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Andreas Nautsch, Junichi Yamagishi, Nicholas Evans, Jose Patino, Jean-François Bonastre, Paul-Gauthier Noé, Massimiliano Todisco
The VoicePrivacy Challenge aims to promote the development of privacy preservation tools for speech technology by gathering a new community to define the tasks of interest and the evaluation methodology, and benchmarking solutions through a series of challenges.
1 code implementation • 8 Nov 2021 • Hemlata Tak, Madhu Kamble, Jose Patino, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
This paper introduces RawBoost, a data boosting and augmentation method for the design of more reliable spoofing detection solutions which operate directly upon raw waveform inputs.
2 code implementations • 7 Oct 2021 • Wanying Ge, Jose Patino, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
Substantial progress in spoofing and deepfake detection has been made in recent years.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2021 • Junichi Yamagishi, Xin Wang, Massimiliano Todisco, Md Sahidullah, Jose Patino, Andreas Nautsch, Xuechen Liu, Kong Aik Lee, Tomi Kinnunen, Nicholas Evans, Héctor Delgado
In addition to a continued focus upon logical and physical access tasks in which there are a number of advances compared to previous editions, ASVspoof 2021 introduces a new task involving deepfake speech detection.
1 code implementation • 1 Sep 2021 • Natalia Tomashenko, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Jose Patino, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Paul-Gauthier Noé, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, Benjamin O'Brien, Anaïs Chanclu, Jean-François Bonastre, Massimiliano Todisco, Mohamed Maouche
We provide a systematic overview of the challenge design with an analysis of submitted systems and evaluation results.
1 code implementation • 1 Sep 2021 • Héctor Delgado, Nicholas Evans, Tomi Kinnunen, Kong Aik Lee, Xuechen Liu, Andreas Nautsch, Jose Patino, Md Sahidullah, Massimiliano Todisco, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi
The automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures (ASVspoof) challenge series is a community-led initiative which aims to promote the consideration of spoofing and the development of countermeasures.
1 code implementation • 27 Jul 2021 • Hemlata Tak, Jee-weon Jung, Jose Patino, Madhu Kamble, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
Artefacts that serve to distinguish bona fide speech from spoofed or deepfake speech are known to reside in specific subbands and temporal segments.
1 code implementation • 26 Jul 2021 • Wanying Ge, Jose Patino, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
End-to-end approaches to anti-spoofing, especially those which operate directly upon the raw signal, are starting to be competitive with their more traditional counterparts.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2021 • Hemlata Tak, Jee-weon Jung, Jose Patino, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
This paper reports our use of graph attention networks (GATs) to model these relationships and to improve spoofing detection performance.
1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2021 • Wanying Ge, Michele Panariello, Jose Patino, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
This paper reports the first successful application of a differentiable architecture search (DARTS) approach to the deepfake and spoofing detection problems.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2021 • Lin Zhang, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi, Jose Patino, Nicholas Evans
By definition, partially-spoofed utterances contain a mix of both spoofed and bona fide segments, which will likely degrade the performance of countermeasures trained with entirely spoofed utterances.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2021 • Marta Gomez-Barrero, Pawel Drozdowski, Christian Rathgeb, Jose Patino, Massimmiliano Todisco, Andras Nautsch, Naser Damer, Jannis Priesnitz, Nicholas Evans, Christoph Busch
Since early 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on many aspects of daily life.
1 code implementation • 2 Nov 2020 • Hemlata Tak, Jose Patino, Massimiliano Todisco, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas Evans, Anthony Larcher
Spoofing countermeasures aim to protect automatic speaker verification systems from attempts to manipulate their reliability with the use of spoofed speech signals.
2 code implementations • 2 Nov 2020 • Jose Patino, Natalia Tomashenko, Massimiliano Todisco, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas Evans
Anonymisation has the goal of manipulating speech signals in order to degrade the reliability of automatic approaches to speaker recognition, while preserving other aspects of speech, such as those relating to intelligibility and naturalness.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2020 • Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler, Jose Patino, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Massimiliano Todisco, Christoph Busch, Nicholas Evans
Despite these and other advantages, biometric systems in general and Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems in particular can be vulnerable to attack presentations.
2 code implementations • 19 May 2020 • Andreas Nautsch, Jose Patino, Natalia Tomashenko, Junichi Yamagishi, Paul-Gauthier Noe, Jean-Francois Bonastre, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
Mounting privacy legislation calls for the preservation of privacy in speech technology, though solutions are gravely lacking.
Cryptography and Security Audio and Speech Processing
3 code implementations • 4 May 2020 • Natalia Tomashenko, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Andreas Nautsch, Junichi Yamagishi, Nicholas Evans, Jose Patino, Jean-François Bonastre, Paul-Gauthier Noé, Massimiliano Todisco
The VoicePrivacy initiative aims to promote the development of privacy preservation tools for speech technology by gathering a new community to define the tasks of interest and the evaluation methodology, and benchmarking solutions through a series of challenges.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2019 • Md Sahidullah, Jose Patino, Samuele Cornell, Ruiqing Yin, Sunit Sivasankaran, Hervé Bredin, Pavel Korshunov, Alessio Brutti, Romain Serizel, Emmanuel Vincent, Nicholas Evans, Sébastien Marcel, Stefano Squartini, Claude Barras
This paper describes the speaker diarization systems developed for the Second DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge (DIHARD II) by the Speed team.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2019 • Kong Aik Lee, Ville Hautamaki, Tomi Kinnunen, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Koji Okabe, Ville Vestman, Jing Huang, Guohong Ding, Hanwu Sun, Anthony Larcher, Rohan Kumar Das, Haizhou Li, Mickael Rouvier, Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Wei Rao, Qing Wang, Chunlei Zhang, Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad, Hector Delgado, Jose Patino, Qiongqiong Wang, Ling Guo, Takafumi Koshinaka, Jiacen Zhang, Koichi Shinoda, Trung Ngo Trong, Md Sahidullah, Fan Lu, Yun Tang, Ming Tu, Kah Kuan Teh, Huy Dat Tran, Kuruvachan K. George, Ivan Kukanov, Florent Desnous, Jichen Yang, Emre Yilmaz, Longting Xu, Jean-Francois Bonastre, Cheng-Lin Xu, Zhi Hao Lim, Eng Siong Chng, Shivesh Ranjan, John H. L. Hansen, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
The I4U consortium was established to facilitate a joint entry to NIST speaker recognition evaluations (SRE).
1 code implementation • 6 Sep 2018 • Jose Patino, Héctor Delgado, Nicholas Evans
The first DIHARD challenge aims to promote speaker diarization research and to foster progress in domain robustness.