no code implementations • 16 Jul 2024 • Michele Panariello, Natalia Tomashenko, Xin Wang, Xiaoxiao Miao, Pierre Champion, Hubert Nourtel, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans, Emmanuel Vincent, Junichi Yamagishi
The VoicePrivacy Challenge promotes the development of voice anonymisation solutions for speech technology.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2024 • Mirco Ravanelli, Titouan Parcollet, Adel Moumen, Sylvain de Langen, Cem Subakan, Peter Plantinga, Yingzhi Wang, Pooneh Mousavi, Luca Della Libera, Artem Ploujnikov, Francesco Paissan, Davide Borra, Salah Zaiem, Zeyu Zhao, Shucong Zhang, Georgios Karakasidis, Sung-Lin Yeh, Pierre Champion, Aku Rouhe, Rudolf Braun, Florian Mai, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Seyed Mahed Mousavi, Andreas Nautsch, Xuechen Liu, Sangeet Sagar, Jarod Duret, Salima Mdhaffar, Gaelle Laperriere, Mickael Rouvier, Renato de Mori, Yannick Esteve
This paper presents SpeechBrain 1. 0, a significant milestone in the evolution of the toolkit, which now has over 200 recipes for speech, audio, and language processing tasks, and more than 100 models available on Hugging Face.
1 code implementation • 3 Apr 2024 • Natalia Tomashenko, Xiaoxiao Miao, Pierre Champion, Sarina Meyer, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Michele Panariello, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco
The task of the challenge is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker's voice identity while protecting linguistic content and emotional states.
2 code implementations • 5 Aug 2023 • Pierre Champion
The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of speech data.
no code implementations • 15 Apr 2023 • Hubert Nourtel, Pierre Champion, Denis Jouvet, Anthony Larcher, Marie Tahon
This paper studies the impact of the speaker anonymization baseline system of the VPC on emotional information present in speech utterances.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2022 • Pierre Champion, Denis Jouvet, Anthony Larcher
We propose enhancing the disentanglement by removing speaker information from the acoustic model using vector quantization.
2 code implementations • 23 Mar 2022 • Natalia Tomashenko, Xin Wang, Xiaoxiao Miao, Hubert Nourtel, Pierre Champion, Massimiliano Todisco, Emmanuel Vincent, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, Jean-François Bonastre
Participants apply their developed anonymization systems, run evaluation scripts and submit objective evaluation results and anonymized speech data to the organizers.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2022 • Pierre Champion, Denis Jouvet, Anthony Larcher
With the popularity of virtual assistants (e. g., Siri, Alexa), the use of speech recognition is now becoming more and more widespread. However, speech signals contain a lot of sensitive information, such as the speaker's identity, which raises privacy concerns. The presented experiments show that the representations extracted by the deep layers of speech recognition networks contain speaker information. This paper aims to produce an anonymous representation while preserving speech recognition performance. To this end, we propose to use vector quantization to constrain the representation space and induce the network to suppress the speaker identity. The choice of the quantization dictionary size allows to configure the trade-off between utility (speech recognition) and privacy (speaker identity concealment).
1 code implementation • 8 Oct 2021 • Pierre Champion, Thomas Thebaud, Gaël Le Lan, Anthony Larcher, Denis Jouvet
This paper explores various attack scenarios on a voice anonymization system using embeddings alignment techniques.
no code implementations • 24 Sep 2021 • Pierre Champion, Denis Jouvet, Anthony Larcher
In the scenario of the Voice Privacy challenge, anonymization is achieved by converting all utterances from a source speaker to match the same target identity; this identity being randomly selected.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2021 • Pierre Champion, Denis Jouvet, Anthony Larcher
Speech pseudonymization aims at altering a speech signal to map the identifiable personal characteristics of a given speaker to another identity.