Anonymizing Speech: Evaluating and Designing Speaker Anonymization Techniques

arXiv:2308.04455v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering most speech services, it also poses serious privacy issues for users as centralized storage makes private personal speech data vulnerable to cyber threats. With the increasing use of voice-based digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Google's Home, and Apple's Siri, and with the increasing ease …

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